28 Nov
2002
28 Nov
'02
3:32 p.m.
On 27 November 2002, rm said:
if you can help it, you might look at alsa
(alsa-project.org) and jack
(jackit.sf.net) which is built on alsa. both are much nicer than OSS,
and make life much easier.
Yeah, I've dabbled with ALSA in the past -- mainly because I had a
machine at work with non-standard audio hardware that was only supported
by ALSA. Don't tell my boss, but I spent half a day figuring out ALSA,
patching and rebuilding my kernel, building the utilities, and rebooting
just so I could listen to music on that machine. Ahh, those were the
days...
However, I want to make sure that the Python linuxaudiodev works
out-of-the-box for 90% of Linux users, which I guess means it has to
stick to the OSS API. (For now.)
with respect to audio, i don't think there are
defined semantics.
*sigh* I was afraid that's what the answer would be. Oh well.
Thanks --
Greg
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