OSS and ALSA

[David Demelier]

On 21/01/2013 17:23, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> 
> Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, SDL Output works fine.  I think that this should be the default
>> for the
>> following reasons:
>> - unlike OSS4 it doesn't require an additional external kernel driver
>> - unlike PulseAudio it doesn't require any daemon (and possibly extra
>> configuration)
>> - unlike ALSA OSS plugin, SDL code is sane in its usage of OSS API
> 
> The "real" OSS support was dropped by audacious somewhere in the past
> and is
> unfortunally no longer available.
> I can switch the default from OSS4 to SDL if this is what the community
> wants - I have no hard feeling here.

Yes I think this is a better solution, OSSv4 is an huge port that must
*replace* the in-kernel mixer/soundcard support.

Cheers,
David