Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:23:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> 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 Message-ID: <201707200123.v6K1NVum047305@repo.freebsd.org>
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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 @@ <sponsor>Netgate</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat="ports"> + <title><tt>sndio</tt> Support in the &os; Ports Collection</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Tobias</given> + <common>Kortkamp</common> + </name> + <email>tobik@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.sndio.org">Sndio Homepage</url> + <url href="https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2010_sndio.pdf">Sndio Paper</url> + <url href="https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf">Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and &os; (section 17)</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p><tt>sndio</tt> is a small audio and MIDI framework that + is part of the OpenBSD project. It provides a lightweight + audio and MIDI server, <tt>sndiod</tt>. It currently supports + OpenBSD, &os;, DragonFly BSD, and Linux.</p> + + <p>The porting effort to &os; and OSS started last year and + the <tt>sndio</tt> backend support in the &os; Ports + Collection can now be considered good enough for daily + use.</p> + + <p>Sndio offers network transparency through <tt>sndiod</tt>, + 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.</p> + + <p>A short selection of ports that now support <tt>sndio</tt> in + the &os; Ports Collection:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Most games, via <tt>audio/openal-soft</tt>, + <tt>devel/sdl12</tt>, and <tt>devel/sdl20.</tt></li> + + <li>GStreamer-based applications and WebKit-based browsers + through two new GStreamer plugins + (<tt>audio/gstreamer1-plugins-sndio</tt> and + <tt>audio/gstreamer-plugins-sndio</tt>).</li> + + <li>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.</li> + + <li>Video players like VLC, Totem, <tt>mpv</tt>, + <tt>mplayer</tt>, etc..</li> + + <li>Audio players like Clementine, <tt>cmus</tt>, + <tt>mpd</tt>, <tt>mpg123</tt>, <tt>siren</tt>, <tt>xmp</tt>, + etc..</li> + + <li>SoX.</li> + + <li>Shairport Sync, through a newly implemented backend.</li> + + <li>JACK.</li> + + <li>PulseAudio, through + <tt>audio/pulseaudio-module-sndio</tt>.</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Commit a backport of Kodi's new <tt>sndio</tt> backend to + the Ports Collection.</task> + + <task>If you maintain or use an audio-related port, consider + checking if it includes an <tt>sndio</tt> backend and adding + an <tt>SNDIO</tt> option. Thanks to the OpenBSD developers, + several open-source projects already include one, so adding it + might be very easy to do.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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