[LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Thanks for the info Jussi!


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Jussi Laako wrote:

> On 12/11/2009 03:24 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>> Does anyone know if OSS supports proper software mixing?
>
> Yes it does, and sample rate conversion too. Works pretty OK.
>

Great!


>> Is the alsa emulation working somewhat okay?
>
> I have to say no, it's not. I've got best results with OSS -> jack ->
> alsa-jack-plugin.
>

Probably good enough for me. It's java that's my main
problem actually, since I'm currently developing three
programs which runs on the JVM. But flash would be nice
to have working too. Any experience with flash and java?



>> Are there any problems configuring the machine to use more than one card?
>
> I haven't encountered any. I usually have three cards and that has been
> working fine. Syncing multiple cards is always a bit complex with ALSA
> or OSS and I haven't paid too much attention to this. I would assume
> using one card with really good number of channels is better solution.
>

I actually only ment if it was easy to set the default
soundcard?