Swfdec - Oct 2008 - Resurrect OSS support for non-ALSA operating systems

Hi,

I have been trying to update NetBSD's swfdec and browser plugin packages to
0.8.0, but have been unable to get audio support working. Judging by the source
repository, OSS support was removed from swfdec during the 0.7.x series with a
comment that it was unmaintained. This means that with ALSA support the only
working option, audio only works on Linux. If the OSS support was resurrected, I
would be prepared to maintain it (for NetBSD at least). I would also contact the
maintainer of OpenBSD's swfdec package to see if he's willing to help
test on
that platform.

Regards,

Chris

chriswareham at chriswareham.demon.co.uk ha scritto:
> Hi,
Hi Cris,
> I have been trying to update NetBSD's swfdec and browser plugin
packages to
> 0.8.0, but have been unable to get audio support working. Judging by the
source
> repository, OSS support was removed from swfdec during the 0.7.x series
with a
> comment that it was unmaintained. This means that with ALSA support the
only
> working option, audio only works on Linux. If the OSS support was
resurrected, I
> would be prepared to maintain it (for NetBSD at least). I would also
contact the
> maintainer of OpenBSD's swfdec package to see if he's willing to
help test on
> that platform.
There's a pulseaudio backend available that will work on your platforms, 
please give it a try. If you have issues with pulseaudio backend over oss 
report them. Unfortunately that's not very popular. Then if you are still 
sure to ressurect OSS please take a look at these for reference:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13772
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14875

thanks,
riccardo