[Gajim-devel] Fallback to OSS when no soundplayer found

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Yann Leboulanger <asterix at lagaule.org> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 05:55 PM, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe for a Linux user, aplay is always available; but for many
>> FreeBSD users like me, we don't have any soundplay (even ossplay)
>> installed by default. Our own oss implementation is much better than
>> 4Front's, and we don't use esound or arts.
>>
>> This patch make use of wave and ossaudiodev which where built into
>> python, and it deal with little endian wav sound.
>
> I see 2 problems with that:
> 1/ it's blocking, so playing a sound blocks UI. We need to run that in a
> thread
> 2/ What happens if you try to play 2 sounds at the same time? (2 contacts
> connects at the same time)

Blocking can be solved by thread.
Mixing depends on your OSS implementation. For BSDs, our kernel OSS
driver has the mixing support. Linux is the only distro (AFAIK) that
come with a OSS which does not support mixing.

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