Date: Fri, 01 Mar 96 18:32:30 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WebActive Message-ID: <199603020235.SAA07730@netcom8.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Mar 96 10:53:43 PST." <199603011853.KAA02984@rah.star-gate.com>
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> The sound driver mixer ioctls have not been implement in the linux > emulation layer so the RealAudio player is not going to work. > We should ask them for a native sound player given that they > already ported the server. > Hello Progressive Networks, any good reason why the sound player > was not ported? Application companies port to those platforms where they can get the most customers (or where they have some other incentive such as a strategic partnership or a deal of some kind with another company). How many platforms are supported is also a function of resources required. Any way, a case can be made for a port of the server to FreeBSD far more easily than for a player port. The server typically runs on a web-server system and a high percentage of such systems are Unix based (and FreeBSD counts here). Compared to that a low percentage of frontend systems (that run NetScape & other browsers and where you'd want to run the player) are Unix based and FreeBSD is a small fraction of _that_. Nevertheless, if enough people ask for a FreeBSD player, may be it'll happen -- so if you genuinely care, send some email to prognet. The other thing that'll help is if its sound system interface is made *identical* to one of Linux, Solaris or SGI's interfaces. BTW, the 2.0 server was never `ported' to FreeBSD; it was developed on it! [In case anyone wonders, yes, I work at Progressive Networks but I speak for myself here.] -- bakul
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