From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 12 21:15:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22140 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blackie.cruzers.com (cruzers.com [205.215.232.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22129 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkulp@board66.cruzers.com) Received: from board66.cruzers.com (board66.cruzers.com [205.215.233.66]) by blackie.cruzers.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13244 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkulp@localhost) by board66.cruzers.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id VAA07618; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810130415.VAA07618@board66.cruzers.com> From: David Kulp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable In-Reply-To: <3622C944.5A3EA956@airnet.net> References: <29884.908244565@time.cdrom.com> <3622C944.5A3EA956@airnet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kirby writes: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Voxware has already rotted. Someday soon it will even be removed > > entirely and you will then have the choice between either putting it > > back in yourself and maintaining it separately or switching to the new > > one. > > Jordan, I'm going to second your statement. The Media Vision stuff is > long gone, and I don't know enough about UN*X to fix it. May Voxware > Rest In Pieces. I'm a little naive on this. Will departing from voxware make it more difficult to port audio applications to FreeBSD? I know that the pcm audio includes the voxware ioctls plus others. And OSS presumably has a few that it has added. More than once I have seen FreeBSD advocates recommend that apps be ported to linux first and this is likely to be the common practice as linux continues to increase in popularity. If our audio drivers begin to diverge from others, is this a good thing? -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message