Re: [xine-devel] what do we do about esd?

[Florin A. <fl...@an...>]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 06:40, Guenter Bartsch wrote:
> 
> so xine cannot use oss but has to use esd despite the low quality and
> it's inability to sync audio output.

Fairly often, esd is disabled by default. At least, i believe that's how
it is on Red Hat (someone nudge me if i'm wrong).
So, the problems appear only when people enable it. Which, if you're
speaking about "dumb users", won't happen. And fortunately the more
technical savvy will figure out it's not ok to enable it. ;-)
Most of the sound apps use OSS directly.

> well, one solution could be to persuade the gnome guys to use something
> better.

They already persuaded themselves. :-) They seem fairly determined to
use GStreamer.

> is that one should use gstreamer - unfortunately gstreamer is everything
> but a useable sound daemon.

Yeah, it's in a very early stage yet.

> so i thought about another, smaller solution: how about adding the missing
> functionality (a simple call to determine output latency would improve
> things a lot) to esound? the project seems to be abandoned for three

Sounds like "the open source way". :-)

> awake that project or, if that completely fails, develop a drop-in
> replacement for esd (xsd - the xine sound daemon? ;))

yasd (yet another sound daemon)
Probably not worth it.

> maybe the gonme
> guys will use it

Like i said, they seem pretty determined to use GStreamer for pretty
much everything. But perhaps i'm wrong.
I suppose one could ask them. :-)

> thoughts? ideas? comments?

You Are Oh! So Wrong. :-P

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