Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:19:51 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Kernel OSS vs ALSA |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Free OSS is out there and supported, so it's momentum will continue to > > carry it. > > The new cards are using the API but not the code from OSS.
Right
> > which has turned off some people. There've been a few private > > discussions about writing a nice, clean, small (!) sound API based on > > the capabilities of current cards. > > I'm against changing the API for this. Fix the API by adding positional audio > and to reflect 32+ DSP devices. The existing API is basically sound (pardon > the pun)
Here's the laundry list of requests: * support for any arbitrary mixer device: name, desc, data types, number of subchannels * 3D audio, maybe in userspace * simultaneous multiple streams, with mixing as needed * time marking of streams for synchronization * OSS exposes internals, there should to be a mid-layer lib in userspace * some control over bass boost and the like
Jeff
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