<tt>sndio</tt> Support in the &os; Ports Collection

From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Thu Jul 20 01:23:32 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A064D9EA48; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64D7575B48; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v6K1NVLs047306; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:31 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v6K1NVum047305; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:31 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201707200123.v6K1NVum047305@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:31 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50524 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head X-SVN-Commit-Author: bjk X-SVN-Commit-Paths: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 50524 X-SVN-Commit-Repository: doc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:32 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Thu Jul 20 01:23:31 2017 New Revision: 50524 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50524 Log: Add 2017Q2 sndio entry from tobik Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Thu Jul 20 00:03:44 2017 (r50523) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Thu Jul 20 01:23:31 2017 (r50524) @@ -1277,4 +1277,88 @@ Netgate + + + <tt>sndio</tt> Support in the &os; Ports Collection + + + + + Tobias + Kortkamp + + tobik@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Sndio Homepage + Sndio Paper + Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and &os; (section 17) + + + +

sndio is a small audio and MIDI framework that + is part of the OpenBSD project. It provides a lightweight + audio and MIDI server, sndiod. It currently supports + OpenBSD, &os;, DragonFly BSD, and Linux.

+ +

The porting effort to &os; and OSS started last year and + the sndio backend support in the &os; Ports + Collection can now be considered good enough for daily + use.

+ +

Sndio offers network transparency through sndiod, + which provides an easy way to share your audio devices with + other machines/VMs/jails on your network. However, + applications and libraries need to support playing and + recording through it. To that end, I submitted several patches + to various ports over the course of the last year.

+ +

A short selection of ports that now support sndio in + the &os; Ports Collection:

+ +

Most games, via audio/openal-soft, + devel/sdl12, and devel/sdl20.
GStreamer-based applications and WebKit-based browsers + through two new GStreamer plugins + (audio/gstreamer1-plugins-sndio and + audio/gstreamer-plugins-sndio).
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Seamonkey, Chromium, and Iridium. + The browsers currently lack or have a non-functional OSS + backend. Sndio support provides a BSD-native alternative to + the ALSA and PulseAudio backends.
Video players like VLC, Totem, mpv, + mplayer, etc..
Audio players like Clementine, cmus, + mpd, mpg123, siren, xmp, + etc..
SoX.
Shairport Sync, through a newly implemented backend.
JACK.
PulseAudio, through + audio/pulseaudio-module-sndio.

+ + + + Commit a backport of Kodi's new sndio backend to + the Ports Collection. + + If you maintain or use an audio-related port, consider + checking if it includes an sndio backend and adding + an SNDIO option. Thanks to the OpenBSD developers, + several open-source projects already include one, so adding it + might be very easy to do. + +