Re: ITP: xmms-aalsa
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:35:35PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> MvdS> xmms-aalsa is 'XMMS Another Alsa Plugin' - a plugin which directly uses ALSA
> MvdS> 0.5.x to play (instead of the OSS compatibility layer)
>
> esound-alsa doesn't work ?
>
> (I don't use alsa)
The problem with esound-alsa isn't the alsa, it's the esound. esound is
expensive and has too many predictable strange problems doing certain
things. I have wav file that will break esound no matter what plays it,
but everything that plays it through esound can also play it with OSS and
it'll work just fine.
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