[linux-audio-dev] What's the best audio IO API on Linux

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 15 04:57:00 UTC 2003


On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:00:07 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Harold Zhu wrote:
> >[...] so what's the best audio IO API on Linux?
> 
> Sascha has already pointed at ALSA vs. OSS. I'd like to add that if you 
> want to have cross platform portability (Linux/FreeBSD/OS 
> X/Solaris/Windows) then you should take a look at PortAudio: 
> http://www.portaudio.com/. Alas, AFAIK there's no complete ALSA driver 
> for PortAudio yet, only an OSS driver, but they are working on it.

Thats true but PortAudio doesnt support the most usful linux audio API,
JACK. If your app has any pro-audio use then JACK support is essential.

- Steve



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