mpv snap

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Both raw device access and alsa access are interesting. ALSA is mediated
(multiple snaps can get it) and raw device is exclusive.

Mark

On 27/07/16 11:54, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 26.07.2016, 19:46 -0600 schrieb Selene Scriven:
>> * Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On classic the interface provides access to the user session's 
>>> pulseaudio. On an all snaps system (eg, Ubuntu Core) pulseaudio 
>>> doesn't exist on the system and a pulseaudio snap must be 
>>> installed. Once installed, the interface is available for other 
>>> snaps to connect.
>> Any idea if there are plans to allow ALSA access?  Several things 
>> don't work (or don't work well) with Pulse running, and I find 
>> that a few lines in .asoundrc usually make Pulse unnecessary even 
>> for basic desktop purposes.
> well, you dont really need alsa *access* you can ship the libs and
> config in your snap (and have full control over your dependencies), what
> you need is direct device access for that setup ... that way you can
> also have all realtime love you can imagine without the underlying host
> system interfering ...
>
> so instead of an alsa interface we should have an audio-device interface
> that you can use more flexible...
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>
>

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