[crossfire] Alsa 1.0.x client sound support.

[Scott MacFiggen]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:12:04PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
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      On Friday 11 February 2005 01:35 am, you wrote:
     
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      > ? The other sound modules don't have a problem because they can make
     
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      > sure they never do blocking operations - I imagine the same can be true
     
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      > of the alsa client - I just think that right now there can be cases were
     
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      > certain operations can block (but I'm hardly an alsa9 expert).
     
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      sound and linux in general is "bad". I'll poke around the alsa api and see if 
     
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      the is a non-blocking capability.
     
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      How about a step back, is there a sound API that can be "universal" for all 
     
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      unix-like crossfire clients?
     
     
SDL has two sound libraries available on 
     
     http://www.libsdl.org
     
     
  SDL_sound is used to load different sound formats
  SDL_mixer is used for playback.

SDL_mixer will use OSS or Alsa as the sound driver depending on which one is
available from what I can tell.

 -Scott