>> > OSS is dead. You should not be writing apps with >> OSS. If you want >> > portability use PortAudio. >> >> It's not dead if you are doing audio work on any >> other IEEE-1003.1 OS >> than Linux. > >The prob. w/ portaudio is it abstracts to OSS, not >ALSA and I'd rather not take the least-common >denominator road.
No. PortAudio abstracts to a callback model. Its closer to JACK than either OSS or ALSA. It isn't any closer to ALSA than it is to OSS.
