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Steven Adeff wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 2/24/06, Ian Forde <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian@duckland.org"><ian@duckland.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:09 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday 23 February 2006 08:35, Andrew Heath wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yeah, I have no idea what oss.
Anyway... It looks like they need to add a --disable-audio-oss flag in
gentoo. You would think the -oss would take care of this, but it doesn't.
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<pre wrap="">No, they should NOT be using --disable-audio-oss. That's exactly what's
screwing things up.
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<pre wrap="">Sigh... here goes... Jarod - it seems that for some reason people are
not getting what's going on here...
What Jarod, Isaac, and everyone else that has "been there" is trying to
say is the following:
1. OSS kernel drivers don't have to be on your box. ALSA is what's in
the kernel these days, and it has an OSS compatibility layer for
programs that still want to use OSS. That doesn't mean that OSS is in
your kernel.
2. Myth can use ALSA and it can use OSS. It doesn't care whether it's
"true" OSS (such as the deprecated kernel drivers or those found at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.opensound.com">www.opensound.com</a>) or "emulated" OSS via the ALSA compatibility layer.
3. Leaving ALSA as installed will give you the OSS compatibility layer
PROVIDED BY ALSA. Myth is fine with it (as stated in Note #1)
4. DO NOT USE "--disable-audio-oss" when building Myth UNLESS YOU FALL
INTO A PARTICULAR SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES such as building for OSX. EVEN
IF YOU PLAN ON USING JUST ALSA!
5. Read Note #4 again
-Ian
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out of curiosity, I have been building with --disable-audio-oss for a
few months now on my Debian systems (64 and 32) and haven't noticed
any issues. what exactly does disabling oss do that you recommend
against disabling it, are there issues that I might be experiencing
that I shouldn't due to the fact that I've been disabling it?
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Steve
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Steve are you transcoding? It seems to cause a "Unknown codec", or it
can cause another error, "<span class="postbody">NVR::AudioInit() This
Unix doesn't support device files for audio access. Skipping". In
gentoo, you need to use the +oss flag to make it work right. Even
though you have +alsa and would expect alsas compat layer to work.<br>
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