[mythtv-users] ALSA only

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 02 May 2005 04:07 pm, Nick wrote:
> Isaac,
>
> Thanks for the information that OSS emulation is still needed in
> certain circumstances - is it for all bttv cards that need to record
> audio separately? I only ask as up until now my capture cards - DVB
> and PVR-350 - either encode (350) or dump (DVB) audio with the video
> and as I'm running 0.16, only mythmusic needs the OSS emulation from
> ALSA (AIUI). (As I have a couple WinTV cards in my spares box, I was
> going to setup a slave backend with these and maybe another DVB card.)
>
> If I was to install/upgrade to 0.18 and have no bttv cards recording
> in the machine, am I able to be completely OSS free? I recall reading
> that mythmusic now supports ALSA.

What's the big deal about keeping alsa's oss emulation turned on?  It doesn't 
hurt _anything_.

Isaac