Comment 42 for bug 579300

I don't have the same way of thinking.

For me, the idea is everithing need to work before dropping such feature ! Not dropping the feature and break all compatibility !

You have to understand me ! And every other persons who have a video capture device !

All this people have to go back to Lucid and keep using Lucid and wait for an hypothetical ALSA version of V4L and XawTV that will nether exist !

> OSS can "*prevents* all other programs from accessing the sound
device concurrently"

Yes, but no OSS prevent to use OSS programs ! And because virtually nothing use OSS by default, I think this "OS lock syndrome" is already for most of us a problem of the past !

I know your reason, I know what you are trying to do. But Is it not too early ? Or is it really a good idea ? I think this idea cause more trouble that it drop ...

And like you said, you are investigating at using OSSp why OSSp not here ? And if it come, will it allow V4l users to use their TV cards ? I don't think this will really work ... or at least work as great as it worked before ...

And if you think this decision was great, just look at all the "duplicate" bugs around ... The main problem is not dropping OSS but V4L and a lot of other applications that don't support OSS, yes I know ... but this work have to be done ! And he is not !

PS: let's forget about OSS4 that's not the solution and it 's too complicated to install for end user. Ubuntu is user friendly or not ?