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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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First of you it is most cool that the server was developed on
FreeBSD --- Fantastic to hear!!!

Given that Bakul is on the list and I am pretty sure that he
knows the sound driver hackers (hang on let me go to my closet 
darn where is that army certified flame thrower, shit)

Bakul, just compiled the audio player with the existing sound
driver. If you have any problems just e-mail me .
The FreeBSD sound driver is the linux sound driver.

	Amancio

>>> Bakul Shah said:
 > > The sound driver mixer ioctls have not been implement in the linux
 > > emulation layer so the RealAudio player is not going to work.
 > > We should ask them for a native sound player given that they
 > > already ported the server.
 > 
 > > Hello Progressive Networks, any good reason why the sound player
 > > was not ported?
 > 
 > Application companies port to those platforms where they can
 > get the most customers (or where they have some other
 > incentive such as a strategic partnership or a deal of some
 > kind with another company).  How many platforms are
 > supported is also a function of resources required.  Any
 > way, a case can be made for a port of the server to FreeBSD
 > far more easily than for a player port.
 > 
 > The server typically runs on a web-server system and a
 > high percentage of such systems are Unix based (and FreeBSD
 > counts here).  Compared to that a low percentage of frontend
 > systems (that run NetScape & other browsers and where you'd
 > want to run the player) are Unix based and FreeBSD is a
 > small fraction of _that_.
 > 
 > Nevertheless, if enough people ask for a FreeBSD player, may
 > be it'll happen -- so if you genuinely care, send some email
 > to prognet.  The other thing that'll help is if its sound
 > system interface is made *identical* to one of Linux,
 > Solaris or SGI's interfaces.
 > 
 > BTW, the 2.0 server was never `ported' to FreeBSD; it was
 > developed on it!
 > 
 > [In case anyone wonders, yes, I work at Progressive Networks
 >  but I speak for myself here.]
 > 
 > -- bakul