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LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 21, 2008 22:59 UTC (Sun) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess by smorovic
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

We will never be able to provide 100% OSS compat in PA -- and not even 100% ALSA compat.

Also, note that the OSS compat ALSA in the kernel provides is far from perfect. Doesn't support userspace plugins -- it hence is incompatible with userspace plugins, such as dmix, and everything else.

Also, OSS as an API is broken in the timing model. The timing model is so broken that it desn't really work properly on USB audio.

Lennart


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