Problems with vlc 0.2.80

[Stephan Assmus]

>On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:48:47PM +0200, Stephan Assmus wrote:
>
>> Jeez. You Linux guys definitely have some serious OS design 
problems! 
>> There is no _single_ audio_server running, that applications can 
>> register sound outputs with and have the server mix it 
automatically?!?
>
>Actually, there's two or three, the last time I looked.

Well, if there's more than one, that end up fighting over the sound 
device, that's the problem then...

>And the more recently updated sound drivers can mix 'em at kernel-
level.

If the driver provides hardware mixing, the ONE audio_server should 
notice and use the drivers provided function instead of its own. But 
this is getting off-topic I guess.

-Stephan