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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 07:51:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
Cc: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Kamil Rytarowski <kamil@netbsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= <philmd@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 2019-01-24 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
[...]
> I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion.
> 
> But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch
> of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to
> maintain a backend for each of those methods.
> 
> Maybe we should outsource that problem.  Write a gstreamer backend, then
> delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle
> that mess ...

Well, before writing a gstreamer backend, you could also say that we
only support SDL in QEMU, since SDL is also a wrapper around all the
other possible sound backends...

 Thomas