Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default

[Thomas Huth]

On 2019-01-24 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
[...]
> I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion.
> 
> But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch
> of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to
> maintain a backend for each of those methods.
> 
> Maybe we should outsource that problem.  Write a gstreamer backend, then
> delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle
> that mess ...

Well, before writing a gstreamer backend, you could also say that we
only support SDL in QEMU, since SDL is also a wrapper around all the
other possible sound backends...

 Thomas