From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 16:03:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3756516A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:03:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD34543D6D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:03:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04314167656; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6DG3ReH020456 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:03:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:03:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <40F37D8C.1000108@midsouth.rr.com> <40F40057.6050203@pop1.scram.de> In-Reply-To: <40F40057.6050203@pop1.scram.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_PfA9AyrNuFgmmLr"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407131803.27252.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Axel Auweter Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of the ports fromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:03:31 -0000 --Boundary-02=_PfA9AyrNuFgmmLr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 13 July 2004 17:31, Axel Auweter wrote: > AFAIK it has already been discussed that porting ALSA to FreeBSD seems=20 > to be nearly impossible. Dev Mazumar of 4Front Tech wrote here some time ago they had/were working o= n=20 an alsa emulation in (commercial) OSS. Perhaps he can comment on the status= =20 of it right now (and if it's going to be available in the FreeBSD versions = of=20 OSS). > Does anybody know, whether there are any plans or ongoing projects to > create a better sound architecture for FreeBSD than OSS? It's rather a question of making applications support !ALSA or at least som= e=20 middleware. Inventing yet another API and replacing OSS with it will not=20 produce application support out of thin air (but instead would leave FreeBS= D=20 without any application support at all). =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --Boundary-02=_PfA9AyrNuFgmmLr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA9AfPXhc68WspdLARAvccAJ94twWHXGSjB1V2O9K9aJdhi/i+YACfRDkj GyPKrsk47QXxlF8qN4GumfU= =4KOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_PfA9AyrNuFgmmLr--