[alsa-devel] Alsa OSS - who is maintaining it?

Stefan de Konink skinkie at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 26 15:46:09 CEST 2007


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Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:45:56 +0200,
> Stefan de Konink wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for the maintainers of the Alsa OSS layer. It seems it is
>> getting more seriously broken each month. The last serious updates were
>> almost 7 months ago by tiwai and perex.
>
> There was another fix for 64bit ops.

Point taken ;)

>> Dev must have noticed the 'skips' on the end of an OSS stream. The
>> complete broken big endian emulation and so on. What is currently
>> happening in this area?
>
> No, I don't know of such problems.
> Could you give pointers?

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2763

So take a random powerpc try to play something with OSS emulation. And
the sound has an endian problem.


Almost every application with OSS that I run has an end buffer issues.
After playing it, alsa fills up the buffer with the last sound that was
played.



Stefan
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