[Vorbis-dev] Does libao use /dev/sound for audio ?

[Michael Smith]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Diptopal Basu <diptopal.basu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I am using the Versatile Application baseboard and intend to use the ogg
> vorbis libraries .
>
> I have been able to install all the modules related to sound . However I
> think there's something wrong with the /sev/sound folder in my kernel ,
> hence everytime we do
>
> cat anything.au > /dev/audio
>
> It throws an error cant create device /dev/audio even though /dev/audio is
> present .
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> My question is the ogg vorbis libraries like the libao , do they make use of
> /dev/audio or is there any other mechanism .

libao is not an ogg or vorbis library. It's a completely unrelated
library, for audio output - and it's unmaintained, so I don't know if
anyone will be able to help you with it.

Fortunately, since libao has nothing to do with ogg or vorbis, you can
happily use vorbis without using libao.

Mike