On 23.01.2019 11:59, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 10:37, Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> wrote: >> OSS is the portable UNIX audio backend. We could point some flaws in it, >> but it's a good enough for portable UNIX applications. The question is >> what UNIX-like desktop OS does not implement it or removed it. > > If your desktop's native audio API is pulse, like Linux's often > is, then you want to use pulse directly, because the compat layers > are (or were last time I looked) not great, and typically add > in an extra thread and an extra layer of buffering, which means > more latency or more audio dropouts or both. > > thanks > -- PMM >
Pulseaudio uses OSS backend on NetBSD anyway and we keep an in-kernel mixer. So it adds nothing except additional intermediate layer. For non-professional audio purposes OSS is good enough for such applications.
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