| From: | Rudi Chiarito |
| Date: | 12 Sep 2000 at 04:26:10 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Sound in SDK |
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:25:53PM -0700, Patrick Roberts wrote:
> I remember seeing a while ago a post saying that there is no sound
> support in the current SDK. Is that correct?
There is sound, but the quality is... erm... "not too high". Simon
Goodwin and I investigated the issue and eventually found that most
problems were due to ESD, the sound daemon used by the hosted Linux
version. It doesn't seem to be that stable and it isn't maintained much,
either. If you look up the GNOME bug database, you'll see many bug
reports about esound, some of which are as old as one year(!):
http://bugs.gnome.org/db/pa/lesound.html
The problem is that there's no real alternative to Esound. Direct output
to OSS or ALSA means that on many (most? all?) setups only one program at
a time can play audio.
Maybe it could be worth getting the latest CVS build (from which
repository, though? Gnome's? Enlightenment's? Tough question) and use
that. As the project hasn't evolved much in recent times, development
versions are not that risky and mainly feature bugfixes. I'll probably
give it a try next week.