A new version the libao packages is now available for download.
NEWS:
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This is a new upstream release, with upstream changes listed below. See
also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/libao.
The new release includes a new versioned DLL package: libao4. The
old package, libao2, is now obsolete.
Documentation is now in the libao-common package, which will be
installed if any other package is installed. libao is left as a
transition package that will pull in all the other packages.
DESCRIPTION:
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Libao is a cross-platform audio library that allows programs to output
audio using a simple API on a wide variety of platforms. It currently
supports:
* Null output (handy for testing without a sound device)
* WAV files
* AU files
* OSS (Open Sound System, used on Linux and FreeBSD)
* ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
* polypaudio (next generation GNOME sound server)
* esd (EsounD or Enlightened Sound Daemon)
* AIX
* Sun/NetBSD/OpenBSD
* IRIX
* NAS (Network Audio Server)
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David Rothenberger ---- daver...@acm.org
1.0.0 - March 25, 2010
- AO returns to active development
- Added surround channel mapping API and capability
- Update and test all drivers on modern installs
- New config file options
- Driver options may be specifid in config file
- Support for MacosX < 1.5 dropped, driver moded to AUHAL
- Build in WMM driver rather than using dlopen()
- Added Roar Audio driver
- Added OpenBSD SNDIO driver
- Work around ESD non-4096 byte write bug
- Work around aRts server crash bug
- Workaround for VIA82xx click/crackle bugs under ALSA
- Remove dead/unused drivers (solaris, alasa05, mmsound)
- Numerous patches from multiple downstreams
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