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From: Andy Lo A Foe <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> > from BeOS. Linux is turning out the be the media OS <g>
> 
> Very, very impressive... Andy is going to create 'ALSA application of
> year 1998' :-))

;-) .. Thanks to ALSA!!!!

> OK. I tried your player on two computers with three different soundcards
> and looks that is basically working. I reached sometimes some SIGSEGV at
> end of playing..

You mean when closing the window? Or when the song ends?
Segfaults when closing the main window is normal at this stage since I
don't bother cleaning up the threads nicely :)

> Also looks that there are small trouble with underruns when I'm doing
> something other (compilation or using Netscape), but your player is
> typically foreground application which needs realtime interaction.

Yes, it really needs to set up some threads at differen priorities (which
unfortunately only root can do :( ). Without priority changes it will
always perform suboptimally I'm afraid..

> We already have background type applications such as mpg123..

Right.

Thanks,

Andy
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