VLC 2.0 --enable-oss for Open Sound System

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Mateusz Stachowski:
> I'm using PPA for VLC maintained by Nate Muench and I've got the
> 2.0.0-1 and 2.0.0-3 update, but
> unfortunately I can't get audio output right. I'm using OSSv4 (oss
> v4.2
> build 2006) and the older versions of VideoLAN had OSS UNIX option in
> the sound output configuration, but in this version there is no such
> option. I've checked the git repository of VLC 2.0 and in the commit
> titled Update NEWS for 2.0.0 I've found that:
> 
> 
> 
> * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss
> to
> the
> configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS
> emulation.
> 
> 
> I've asked Nate about that and he responded that his packaging comes
> directly from Debian (the only thing he is changing is the
> debian/changelog entry).
> 
> 
> I hope that when the VLC 2.0.1 comes out you will pass that flag to
> build the OSSv4 support (not everyone likes PulseAudio and ALSA).
> Thank you in
> advance of the hopefull update and for all the work you are doing.

I have enable OSS now and will upload it as 2.0.0-4. Sorry for
accidentally dropping OSS support in 2.0.0-1.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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