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LPC: Linux audio: it's a messLPC: Linux audio: it's a messPosted Sep 19, 2008 6:00 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess
There is no mention that a lot of apps still use OSS and that's not going to change. OSS is apparently what they use on BSD and some people find it easier than ALSA. OSS emulation under Linux sort of craps things up a bit basically.
Potentially doing OSS emulation in userspace will fix that?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/28/270
Also the article talks about all the volume knobs being a problem but did anyone come up with a solution? Probably Linux sound is way way too buggy to fix in a one hour session... :/
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LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess Posted Sep 23, 2008 6:09 UTC (Tue) by angelortega (guest, #1306) [Link]
Programmers use OSS and not ALSA because the OSS API is *much* easier to
use than the ALSA library mess.
Also, regarding libsydney, creating yet another wrapper library is not the
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