11 Oct
2003
11 Oct
'03
8:33 a.m.
Hallo,
hexe_2003(a)directbox.com hat gesagt: // hexe_2003(a)directbox.com wrote:
Like I understood portAudio's hp, portaudio is
able to work with
OSS. Secondly, alsa is able to deal with OSS-apps because of an,
well, OSS-emulation. With other words OSS-applications are able to
work with alsa, and they don't know that they are working under alsa
;). Ergo portAudio ( with it compatibility to OSS ) runs under OSS
& ALSA and so under Linux generally.
Well, (almost) every application written for OSS, be it directly or
through PA-OSS, can also run on ALSA's OSS emulation. That's what an
emulation is good for.
But you miss the advanced features of ALSA if you only use the
OSS-emu. For example it is rather hard to map the asoundrc-definitions
in a common 4-channel USB card like the M-Audio Quattro to OSS
devices. At least I couldn't get this to work in ALSA-OSS.
ciao
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