PSARC 2008/318 Boomer - potential issues

[Brian Cameron]

Garrett:

> Note that if we only have to support GStreamer, and if GStreamer is 
> willing to identify the Sun Ray session ID for us (e.g. with a new 
> ioctl, or by opening a different file), then we could make those APPs 
> work fairly easily.  I was trying to find a solution which didn't rely 
> on modification of userland code, though.  (I have hypothesized that 
> there are interesting audio applications which use OSS, and which are 
> not based on GStreamer.)

GStreamer based programs can easily be confiugred to work with either
SADA or OSS.  All other audio programs in Solaris (such as Flash,
RealPlayer, and Ekiga) talk directly to SADA.

There are some interesting OSS audio applications that are not based
on GStreamer - an example is audacity.  However, there are not any
such programs currently distributed with Solaris.  If we were to modify
programs like Flash, RealPlayer or Ekiga so they worked with OSS,
then I would bet we would make them talk directly to OSS rather than
via GStreamer.

Brian