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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by sbergman27 on Sat 27th Sep 2008 22:52
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by FooBarWidget on Sat 27th Sep 2008 23:08
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by apoclypse on Sat 27th Sep 2008 23:55
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Totally agree. The Linux sound scape should be unified. Its really OSS's fault if you think about. They had a perfectly good sound api that Linux community was happy to use, but their licensing sucked, they didn't update it regularly enough and it was lacking features needed. So OSS4 comes out and Linux is supposed to drop ALSA because now OSS gets their head in the game?
I think what Linux needs is total redesign of the sound subsystem, or at least some sort of consolidation, to make it easier on developers. CoreAudio is a great, its easy to use, it robust and it can be used in in professional audio projects as well, as less demanding applications. Right now we have way too many api's that are confusing.
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by renox on Tue 30th Sep 2008 16:01
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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
"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 doesn't matter!
Trust is slowly build and easily lost, users were burnt by OSS licensing issues, why would they ever trust again OSS?
They won't, remember ReiserFS 4?
It wasn't included in the kernel for many reason, but one of the main reason was that kernel developers didn't trust Reiser as he didn't maintained properly the previous FS.
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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