First off, I never heard anything about the re-open sourcing of OSS until just yesterday (stumbled upon it actually), so I am going to assume that a tremendous number of other developers have no idea as well. Perhaps a number of sources decided not to post the press releases (nothing on slashdot for instance). I have a personal interest in insuring the OSS v4.0 API becomes a default kernel audio interface in Linux for use in my own projects ( www.farrarfocus.com/atom ), so if there is anything I can do to help get the word out, please let me know!
-- Possibly not a priority yet, but I'd be interested in working on a userland port of the OSS API for Windows and possibly Mac as well. Providing something like a oss_open(), oss_ioctl(), ... and so on interface which exactly matches the Posix/unix system call model of OSS should be possible. While I'm not 100% up to date with Vista's audio setup, I looks as if the WDM Kernel Streaming (WDM/KS) driver interface from ME,2000,and XP is unchanged on Vista. Seems as if the new Vista WaveRT drivers are very similar to the WDM/KS drivers except that WaveRT works with an event driven user space shared data buffer, instead of the Windows IOCTLs with WDM-KS. Using the WDM/KS interface from a userland API will give one application 100% control and override all the mixing done through other layers of Windows audio. Ultimatly I know that some people (including myself) using some kind of OSS API in Windows, will need the lower latency and advantages of having exclusive access so this WDM/KS interface will be necessary. There is the question about what to do about shared access and the transparent mixing that OSS does. This would probably have to be done by accessing the higher level windows audio APIs to insure non-OSS audio sources are mixed in as well. Perhaps this is more information than is needed now... Regardless, I'm doing a WDM/KS audio interface source base for my own work, which I will gladly offer up to help to start any kind of Windows port for the OSS API. Take care, _ |imothy Farrar game .......... http://www.farrarfocus.com/atom darkroom ...... http://www.farrarfocus.com/ffdd photography ... http://www.farrarfocus.com _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
