PSARC 2008/318 Boomer - potential issues

[Brian Cameron]

Garrett:

> I think that as part of our implementation, we will 
> convert the main control applications to the full featured OSS API, and 
> just punt on this problem -- control applications using Sun audio(7i) 
> won't be able to adjust surround levels, etc.
>
> 6) This seems to be leading us toward the road that we should, once OSS 
> APIs become available everywhere, deprecate the use of Sun audio for 
> mixer and control applications.

Since GStreamer supports a plugin-in approach, it can support both
SunAudio and OSS and let the user pick which mixer controls they want to
use in gnome-volume-control at run time.  The only question is which
should be used by default.  As you say, in the long run, OSS makes the
most sense.

One factor which could affect the default choice is Sun Ray.  I am not
sure we can switch to using OSS mixing controls by default until the Sun
Ray support is done.  Otherwise, won't audio just break for any Sun Ray
users?  Maybe we don't care, but I thought we were trying to promote
Sun Ray usage on OpenSolaris.

Brian