{"id":575,"date":"2008-07-24T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/in-the-big-league\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:12:53","slug":"in-the-big-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/in-the-big-league\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Big League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a been a big fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxhaters.blogspot.com\/\">Linux Hater&#8217;s Blog<\/a> for several months now. So I was overjoyed to see that my work received mention on the blog not once but twice in as many days! Most notably, today, he addresses <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxhaters.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html\">Flash playback<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxhaters.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/rants-heard-round-community-ver-10.html\">yesterday&#8217;s entry<\/a> linked to my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/penguin.swf\/2007\/05\/welcome_to_the_jungle.html\">jungle of Linux audio programming APIs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/penguin.swf\/2007\/05\/welcome_to_the_jungle.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/linux-audio-piece.png\" alt=\"Linux audio API mess\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some people attack that graph as being outdated. They&#8217;re right, you know&#8211; I really should update it to see how much more of a mess the situation currently is. I showed the graph to the <a href=\"http:\/\/0pointer.de\/imprint\">leader of the PulseAudio project<\/a> at LinuxTag in 2007 and he was quick to point out that it was missing quite a few tangled vines. I wager that there are 3 or 4 more boxes to add as well.<\/p>\n<p>What strikes me as I review LH&#8217;s growing archive is <em>how few<\/em> topics he has touched on. I keep reading since I am confident he will eventually cover them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linuxhaters.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/suck-my-codec.html>Suck My Codec<\/a> is one of the more pertinent rants for our group here, although it&#8217;s nothing that the initiated don&#8217;t already know backwards and forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a been a big fan of the Linux Hater&#8217;s Blog for several months now. So I was overjoyed to see that my work received mention on the blog not once but twice in as many days! Most notably, today, he addresses Flash playback. But yesterday&#8217;s entry linked to my jungle of Linux audio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}