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

[victor]

A quick look at WASAPI reference and examples seems to indicate it uses a 
blocking IO method. Is there
a callback mode? Sorry for all of these OT questions, but I got really 
curious. Can WASAPI match Linux and
OSX levels of latency?

Victor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jussi Laako" <jussi at sonarnerd.net>
To: <linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?


> 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...
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