Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:33:48 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: professional sound studio with freebsd, anyone? Message-ID: <200501040433.52650.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20050104025809.GA7680@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050103195828.GA7399@kender.sians.org> <20050104021741.GA24295@kender.sians.org> <20050104025809.GA7680@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday, 4. January 2005 03:58, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:17:41AM +0200, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:37:48PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > The OSS that sucks in Linux is mostly unrelated the the OSS drivers. > > > The only relation is that the most trivial portions of the API are the > > > same. Don't judge FreeBSD's sound system by other people's crappy > > > implementations of the API. > > > > The comparison was not between lin OSS and lin ALSA but between > > fbsd OSS and lin ALSA but i do not take it for granted. > > Do you use FreeBSD with OSS and works fine? Do you record? > > Please let me know your software/hardware inventory and how well > > it works for you. > > If you believe OSS as implemented in FreeBSD won't work for you, that's > your call. There is still confusion going on here. OSS is the Open Sound System. It's a commercial driver suite available for many platforms, including Linux and FreeBSD. Since it's available for so many platforms, the API implemented by the Open Sound System has become a de-facto standard for portable audio applications on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems (like Linux) and is also commonly referred to as "OSS". FreeBSD's soundcard drivers and audio subsystem (newpcm) implement large parts of the OSS API - as does ALSA on Linux (ALSA additionally implements an alternative API). The "OSS is way worse than ALSA" sentiment is bullshit - it mostly refers to a few obsolete drivers in Linux kernel source (which are derived from a very old version of the OSS product, dating back to the mid-nineties). You can easily test OSS - trial versions are available from http://www.opensound.com. At the moment, OSS (the product) is also the only way to get MIDI support on a wide range of modern audio devices on FreeBSD. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB2g6gXhc68WspdLARAsTYAKCdtMtDVL+TOaFfKpKesezzDCcbLACfTM// RlJdz9edSpPfETqCCTPdTrg= =Oqmo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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