Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-29 Thread Dev Mazumdar
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Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-27 Thread Teran McKinney
This is pretty dissapointing, I'd expect any Pulse Audio developer to be better informed. When I was watching Freenode's Arch Linux channel, someone mentioned that OSS4 would probably replace ALSA one day. I eventually took a look at it, and was suprised at how good its driver support was. hda_int

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-25 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
This shit really, really really pisses me off. LX On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 21:07 -0700, Dev Mazumdar wrote: > Yair K. wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 01:02:31 SeaJey wrote: > >> Source: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis > >> Quote: > >> > >> OSS > >> The Open Sound

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-25 Thread François Revol
> Le Thursday 25 September 2008 11:27:11 François Revol, vous avez > écrit : > > This once again show how selfish linux devs are, not even thinking > > anything exists beyond them. OSS is used on many other OSes, and is > > easy to port. > > Try porting ALSA ;-) > > Agreed 100%. > Even more, they

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 25 September 2008 11:27:11 François Revol, vous avez écrit : > This once again show how selfish linux devs are, not even thinking > anything exists beyond them. OSS is used on many other OSes, and is > easy to port. > Try porting ALSA ;-) Agreed 100%. Even more, they don't take applica

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-25 Thread François Revol
> > I think you may have completely underestimated the practicality > > and the > > robustness of Open Sound. > > Hehe, that doesn't change the fact that OSS3 is obsolete and OSS4 > plays > no role on Linux and the API is generally questionnable. Which could be different if Linux had a clean

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-25 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Hi, It's correct that OSS (as a kernel subsystem) doesn't support user space drivers in best possible way. This is only problem in Linux where the designers of the FireWire and Bluetooth subsystems have failed to create a proper kernel space interface for other drivers. Otherwise all you say i

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-24 Thread Dev Mazumdar
Yair K. wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 01:02:31 SeaJey wrote: >> Source: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis >> Quote: >> >> OSS >> The Open Sound System is a low-level PCM API supported by a variety of >> Unixes including Linux. It started out as the standard Linux a

Re: [oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-24 Thread Yair K.
On Thursday 25 September 2008 01:02:31 SeaJey wrote: > Source: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis > Quote: > > OSS > The Open Sound System is a low-level PCM API supported by a variety of > Unixes including Linux. It started out as the standard Linux audio system and > is s

[oss-devel] A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

2008-09-24 Thread SeaJey
Source: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis Quote: OSS The Open Sound System is a low-level PCM API supported by a variety of Unixes including Linux. It started out as the standard Linux audio system and is supported on current Linux kernels in the API version 3 as OSS3. OSS