From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 17:00:35 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 CFE1416A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:00:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B002F43D3F for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:00:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from axel_auweter@pop1.scram.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBCC51F22 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:00:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (dialc209.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.26.209]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD08E5836 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:00:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40F41534.90604@pop1.scram.de> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:00:36 +0200 From: Axel Auweter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <40F37D8C.1000108@midsouth.rr.com> <40F40057.6050203@pop1.scram.de> <200407131803.27252.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200407131803.27252.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of the portsfromthe/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 17:00:35 -0000 Hi, >Dev Mazumar of 4Front Tech wrote here some time ago they had/were working on >an alsa emulation in (commercial) OSS. Perhaps he can comment on the status >of it right now (and if it's going to be available in the FreeBSD versions of >OSS). > > Yes, would be great to hear about that. Maybe, the problem is already solved and I just didn't know about it... >>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 some >middleware. Inventing yet another API and replacing OSS with it will not >produce application support out of thin air (but instead would leave FreeBSD >without any application support at all). > I totally agree with you: another API isn't worth the work. But it seems to me that more and more projects are focussing on ALSA and it may be hard to keep them all compatible with OSS or some middleware. I think the reason for a lot of programmers to use ALSA is its better latency. I'm too new to this topic, so I cannot judge whether ALSA is really that much better, but if it defeats OSS, FreeBSD will need to support the API, one day. I think, I'm going to collect some information about ALSA (although it doesn't seem to be documented very well). An ideal solution would be to have a FreeBSD implementation (or even better: OS independent) of the ALSA Library which works together with the existing ALSA drivers. Any volunteers? ;-) Does anybody know which parts of ALSA are GPL'ed and which are LGPL'ed? Axel