Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-04T11:00:34Z

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:37:55 +0000, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> > 2) ALSA API is to complicated: most applications opens single sound
> > stream.
>
> FUD and nonsense. []
> http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/alsa/

That's the kicker, isn't it? Once you get used to it, it's a workable
API, if kinky and verbose. I have a real life example, too:
http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/mpg123-0.59r-p3.diff
But arriving on the solution costed a lot of torn hair. Look at this
bald head here! And who is going to pay my medical bills when ALSA
causes me ulcers, Jaroslav?

-- Pete