On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 03:31:57PM +0900, SASANO Takayoshi wrote: > Hi, > > > Unless installed in a way to make it hard to pick up accidentally (e.g. > > a non-standard directory, which has its own problems) I expect the > > amount of work needed to cope with this in the rest of the ports tree > > is likely to be quite a lot more than that needed to port a couple of > > applications from alsa to sndio. > > That's important. OpenBSD's standard is sndio, not alsa. > I expected this alsa port to use temporary, for example; > > - until the application supports sndio > - rescue that cannot support sndio > > So alsa should not be first choice on OpenBSD. >
Having two audio layers with different semantics increases the probability of subtle audio problems (stuttering, desynchronization, etc.), which are very time-consuming to fix. Furthermore, alsa-over-sndio is very unlikely to work in all program/device/configuration combinations. I'd suggest adding a sndio backend. The API is designed to make this process as simple as possible. Let us know if you want to try this approach, I can help with the code.
