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From: Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org>
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Andriy Gapon <avg@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.