alsa support?

peets · 30 December 2007, 07:53 pm

Hi,

I don't know much about sound on computers.

From reading a bit of source, it seems sound on linux is managed through either oss or esd. ALSA is a kernel-level sound component; it would be nice to have support for it.

Is this an easy/possible task?

xmixahlx · 31 December 2007, 04:47 am

well oss is deprecated by alsa. and esd is just a sound daemon used by gnome (and you missed artsd used by kde). a sound daemon is kinda like a traffic cop for the sound system.

the musepack development team wrote and maintains "libmpcdec" which is a library decoder for the musepack format. a sound program (player) or even the sound system itself (gstreamer) would have support for musepack as they utilize the library decoder (libmpcdec) currently on the system.

the short version is "already covered"

what makes you ask?

later

peets · 25 April 2008, 03:08 am

Oh thanks. My question was dumb. I found this: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dat...-musepack.html I might take a look at libmpcdec.

30 December 2007, 07:53 pm	#1
peets Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2	alsa support? Hi, I don't know much about sound on computers. From reading a bit of source, it seems sound on linux is managed through either oss or esd. ALSA is a kernel-level sound component; it would be nice to have support for it. Is this an easy/possible task?

31 December 2007, 04:47 am	#2
xmixahlx Musepack developer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: seattle, washington usa Posts: 111	well oss is deprecated by alsa. and esd is just a sound daemon used by gnome (and you missed artsd used by kde). a sound daemon is kinda like a traffic cop for the sound system. the musepack development team wrote and maintains "libmpcdec" which is a library decoder for the musepack format. a sound program (player) or even the sound system itself (gstreamer) would have support for musepack as they utilize the library decoder (libmpcdec) currently on the system. the short version is "already covered" what makes you ask? later __________________ -xmixahlx, the one they call "mike" http://xmixahlx.com -\|- http://rarewares.org

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25 April 2008, 03:08 am	#3
peets Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2	Oh thanks. My question was dumb. I found this: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dat...-musepack.html I might take a look at libmpcdec.