From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 9 21:40:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA14075 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (mvs.oac.ucla.edu [164.67.200.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA14069 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704100440.VAA14069@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from UCLAMVS.BITNET by MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (IBM MVS SMTP V2R2.1) with BSMTP id 1193; Wed, 09 Apr 97 21:40:26 PST Date: Wed, 09 Apr 97 21:39 PDT To: Amancio Hasty From: Denis DeLaRoca Subject: Re: RAT release for FreeBSD Cc: multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG Sender: owner-multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The WWW6 Conference this week in Santa Clara has been MBONE transmitting on occassion with redundancy. I contacted again the RAT development people to ask them about the promised FreeBSD version. They acknowledged that it is in its infancy and using OSS for sound support... aim to have almost identical versions for Linux and FreeBSD. With RAT being locked into OSS, do we have to migrate the other audio tools such as VAT to OSS as well? For the time being RAT is only re- leased in binary form so there won't be much chance of rewriting its sound driver interface. Is OSS the best sound driver option for FreeBSD now? -- Denis