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

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Thu Dec 17 20:20:16 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jussi Laako <jussi at sonarnerd.net> wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 04:58 PM, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>> Through which API? I not sure I understand audio IO on Vista, with the
>> concurrent existence of several APIs. Never mind, perhaps this is a
>> bit OT in a Linux Audio list...
>
> There's WASAPI and rest is practically emulated on top of it.
>
> The good side is that there's practically one API where the programmer
> can choose if he wants to do casual audio with mixing and samplerate
> conversion (always floats) or he can talk directly to the hardware in
> native sample format if needed. There is also possibility to pipeline
> and connect different audio elements there (like effects etc).
>
> So it's kind of ALSA, jack and pulseaudio combined behind one API...

yeah, they actually took a lot of good lessons from CoreAudio, which
has been doing all that for years.



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