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 > -- Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 410.625.7596 Computer Music Research Peabody Conservatory of Music Johns Hopkins University
