On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Antti Nykänen <aon@iki.fi> wrote:
On 2008-07-24 at 13:06, Danny Rawlins wrote:
OSS is depreciated in favor for ALSA
OSS 3.8 in the Linux tree is, but OSS 4 isn't.
Exactly. The OSS v4 is better than ALSA, support more devices and has some interesting features: o Allows applications to share the same "real" audio device regardless of what format is requested by the application. o Supports recording and full duplex in addition to playback. o Ability to mix stereo and multichannel audio streams up to 7.1/192Khz/32bit. o Supports full 24 bit range without loss of precision during internal computations. o Each application has its own independant volume controls. o Supports loop back recording. This enables you to "record-what-you-hear". Typically this is useful for recording streaming audio or trapping audio from applications. -- Unknown - "If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue."