Re: Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:01:10PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Thats a 'nobody wrote the library' case
> 
> No it's not. The people behind OSS (i.e. Hannu) advertise the kernel
> API is the audio API to use for normal programs. Because they do this
> they moved mixing and sample type conversion into the kernel in OSS4.

Please don't confuse Hannu's later stuff with what the kernel community
accepted.

> In short: how modern software wants to drive a sound card has changed
> quite a bit. And OSS3 is from the early 90's. So it's focussed on
> hardware, and it is focussed on hw and sw from 20y ago. An SB16 is
> quite different from a modern HDA sound card.

Not vastly, its a DMA pipe with a DAC on the end

Alan

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