"direct" PCM mode default?

"direct" PCM mode default?

[Petter Sundlöf]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make "direct" PCM mode the default 
for applications that use it, like Quake and so on?

Or if this is unsane, can some other workaround be devised?

A user shouldn't have to make specific workarounds 
(http://alsa-project.org/~iwai/OSS-Emulation.html) for each application 
that has a little quirk. Or?

Best regards,
Petter Sundlöf (via82xx)


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Re: "direct" PCM mode default?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:19, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make "direct" PCM mode the default 
> for applications that use it, like Quake and so on?
> 
> Or if this is unsane, can some other workaround be devised?
> 

Yes, of course.  The whole reason we need to do this horrible hackery is
to support old applications that use an obsolete sound API, we basically
have to be bug-for-bug compatible, to support old applications that the
developers cannot or will not update.  The actual fix is to update
Quake3 to use the ALSA sound API.

> A user shouldn't have to make specific workarounds 
> (http://alsa-project.org/~iwai/OSS-Emulation.html) for each application 
> that has a little quirk. Or?

No, of course not.  But anytime you want to run legacy apps on a modern
system, it won't be 100% perfect.

A shocking number of closed source applications *still* use OSS for
their new versions (flashplayer7 for example).  The only fix for this is
a LART.

Lee 



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