The internal audio device handling code in rat is very different for OSS than it is for ALSA; the OSS one is probably much more mature. I'd hazard a guess that that is at least part of the explanation.
--bob On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Christoph Willing wrote: We've always found that, for some weird reason, RAT's audio quality is better when you select OSS - even though this is really just ALSA pretending to be OSS.
