Just a question, not necessarily a criticism: did you have a compelling 
reason not to start with PortAudio and add an aRTS module?  There seems to 
be pretty decent documentation on doing this, and using PortAudio in a 
client is a breeze.

www.portaudio.com

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:

>    Hi!
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:03:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So far, I have implemented this on Linux RedHat 7.0, 7.1 using the OSS
> > sound drivers.  It works flawlessly on those systems.
> > 
> > I know however, that there are problems when a user has aRTS running,
> > etc.  The main problem is that audio playback becomes choppy.  I suspect
> > the playback problems may occur as well with ESD.
> 
> Well, arts provides a C style API called libartsc, which ships with artsd.
> However, it seems that in the long run, it would be more useful if not every
> sound server would do so and every application would require a huge set of
> backend specific code. So Tim Janik and I started to work on libcsl
> 
>   http://www.arts-project.org/doc/csl-0.2.0.html
> 
> which is an attempt to take that burden off the developer and to provide a
> portable sound input/output library. If you just need output, you might also
> look at libao or libsdl. However, I think that in the long run, having one
> library that covers all needs (libcsl) is the right thing to do for the linux
> community.
> 
>    Cu... Stefan
> 

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Computer Music Research
Peabody Conservatory of Music
Johns Hopkins University

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