[linux-audio-dev] Idea: fake OSS passback driver

Dave Robillard drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Sun Feb 1 16:46:45 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 05:02, Daniel Risacher wrote:
> Despite the various and sundry advances in linux audio, I find there
> are still legacy apps that are built against the OSS API.  This is
> problematic since the legacy OSS model has blocking semantics.  To get
> multiple audio streams, one must use an audio server such as esd,
> aRts, etc.  Wouldn't it be nice if all the legacy apps "just worked"?
> Without blocking each other?

Who really cares?  The apps are going to get ported to alsa (or better
yet jack) eventually anyway.  Otherwise, may they rest in peace.

Instead of spending that much time and effort solving a problem that
/barely/ exists, just port the apps!

-Dave




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