Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Sep 2008 22:14 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Lennart Poettering, main programmer of the PulseAudio project, has written a 'Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle': "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux. So here's my try to guide you through this jungle."
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2006-11-18
from the article:
"OSS should be considered obsolete and not be used in new applications"
This is total bulshit, we have OSS4 which is totally free and open source, it is avialable at any license you can think of (BSD/CDDL/GPL), it is cross platform, works on any popular UNIX and yes, also Linux. Has great and complete documentation along with great and STABLE API, Allows per aplication volume, with live mixinig of sound and may more.
Its SUPERIOR to ALSA shit, which has all these userspace layers because ALSA is not there for the job.
This article is a FUD actually :/
You want API Jungle? Just enter Linux ALSA world:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.ht...
OSS4 is the best way to be sure that your app will be running good and be trully cross platform if it goes for sound.
Edited 2008-09-27 22:46 UTC