On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM, JJ Asghar <jjasghar@gmail.com> wrote:

What is OSS 4?

http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- Jane Austen - "Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

Thiago Coutinho wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM, JJ Asghar <jjasghar@gmail.com> wrote:

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What is OSS 4?

http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

OSS is depreciated in favor for ALSA Please note that this thread is about OSS 4, i.e. not the OSS that's in

Hi Danny, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 13:06:33 +1000, Danny Rawlins wrote: the kernel. I'm not aware that the OSS developers have issued any deprecation notice for OSS v4. HTH, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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:

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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."