From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 9 22:06:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA15446 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15441 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01382; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704100506.WAA01382@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Denis DeLaRoca cc: multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAT release for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 1997 21:39:00 PDT." <199704100440.VAA01176@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 22:06:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It all depends on what MICE people have done in ways of interfacing to the OSS sound driver. For now, I don't think it means that much. Regards, Amancio >From The Desk Of Denis DeLaRoca : > The WWW6 Conference this week in Santa Clara has been MBONE transmitting > on occassion with redundancy. I contacted again the RAT development > people to ask them about the promised FreeBSD version. They acknowledged > that it is in its infancy and using OSS for sound support... aim to have > almost identical versions for Linux and FreeBSD. > > With RAT being locked into OSS, do we have to migrate the other audio > tools such as VAT to OSS as well? For the time being RAT is only re- > leased in binary form so there won't be much chance of rewriting its > sound driver interface. > > Is OSS the best sound driver option for FreeBSD now? > > -- Denis > >