On Monday 12 January 2004 4:13 am, James Wright wrote: > I am currently looking into rewriting our current OSS sound routines to > native ALSA, as it seems OSS will invariably be phased out now that the > ALSA driver is distrubuted with the Linux kernel, plus ALSA seems to have a > great number of benefits for us.
Personally, I hope OSS compat will never be phased out. Why? OSS is simple, and concise. If I am writing a simple audio recording/playing app, I can get the job done using OSS code in _much_ less lines of code. _Dont get me wrong_, ALSA is great and a lot more powerful than OSS, but it is lacking a simple API. Ever try to write an In/Out volume control mixer in OSS? Ever try to port that same mixer to ALSA? From what I can gather (alsa seems to be lacking mixer docs/tutorial) , the only way to change the mic input level (alsa), I have to enumerate over every mixer gizmo and check to see if its the mic, and then change it if I think it appears to be the Mic. Using OSS, I can do that in one line. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
