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

[Victor Lazzarini]

Well, with my ASIO devices if a program is using that audio card via  
ASIO, other programs can't access it. It may well vary from driver to  
driver then.

Victor
On 17 Dec 2009, at 12:52, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

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> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
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>> It's also true to say that elsewhere, on Windows, if you want to  
>> have low-latency, you also loose the software mixer. AFAIK ASIO  
>> drivers and KS implementations are single-client like alsa.
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> As far as my current experience with XP SP3 goes, this is not correct.
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> Mixing works just fine, even when using ASIO. Maybe you have to start
> the asio program first though, I don't know. But still, there's no
> reason why you shouldn't have a global option, lets say 256 frames
> 48000Hz, that everything mixes down to, and then software which needs
> hardcore low-level performance must obey to that setting.
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>> To me, it makes perfect sense to have alsa as a HAL, and get people  
>> using pulseaudio or jack at application level.
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> Something which is unnecessarily complicated can not make perfect  
> sense.
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