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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:19:34 +0800
From:      blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD amd64 GENERIC kernel
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
wrote:

> On 12/19/17 13:57, blubee blubeeme wrote:
>
>> That still leaves my last question unanswered, where does one start
>> if they want to program audio applications on FreeBSD?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> You should start by looking at existing OSSv4 compatible audio
> applications already in FreeBSD ports and in FreeBSD base and compare how
> they use the OSSv4 interface(s).
>
> I have the impression you already know how various IOCTLs and defines are
> named in "sys/soundcard.h" and you can simply grep for the occurrence of
> these. Even just looking for the string "#include <sys/soundcard.h>" might
> be good enough for a start. For example if you have some gigabytes of disk
> space, run "make fetch extract" in all subfolders inside "/usr/ports/audio"
> and then grep through the extracted sources.
>
> --HPS
>
If my only option was to reverse engineer audio programs to learn then API
i'd probably take that route.
It's obvious there's issues that need to be sorted out here.



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