Hi all,

xawtv is the last user of libossaudio pcm ioctls (aka non-mixer ones)
which we're trying to remove.  But because of its internals, it can't
be converted to sndio; probably for the same reason it is not
converted to ALSA either. On the other hand:

- as analog tv is not widespead these days, it's mostly usable
  on a s-video or composite inputs which tend to be rare

- we've other programs to watch/record tv with bktr devices (ex
  mplayer, ffmpeg)

- the port wasn't updated since 2004

My question is: is xawtv still used at all? Is it used to record
audio? I don't mean possibly useful, I mean actually used nowadays.

If yes, I'll have to spend weeks on working with upstream on modifying
its internals to make it use sndio. I'd be OK with that.

If not, the code to record audio could be #ifdef'ed out, or the port
possibly removed if not used at all. This would save me a lot of time
which I could spend more useful audio stuff.

Opinions? Anyone with other plants for it?

-- Alexandre

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