Re: annoyances with sound/video in Debian.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > I've discussed this with Herman Robak in Hacklab2 today:
> > 1. What is expected from group audio ?
> > 2. /dev/raw1394 is owned by disks group.
> > 3. artsd / esd grabbing /dev/dsp is annoying !
> > 4. 1394 / DV / v4l / v4l2 needs consolidation!
> 
> did you file bugs for these issues (or do they already exist?) ? 
> 
> I would then suggest to bring this up on -devel to discuss it with more people 
> and finally implement this - hopefully even in time for etch.
> 
> AFAICS there is another related issue:
> 
> 5. OSS||ALSA - there is no default atm. I would go for ALSA.

I was meaning to get this discussed more widely before committing to
action, just that noone responded until you did :P

Yes, the plan was to get more discussion rolling.

I'm getting more weary about different groups in Debian and the status
quo about the documentation. I don't think it's documented enough
right now.


regards,
	junichi
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