/dev/dsp Obsolete or Not?

2015-07-16 Thread Martin G. McCormick
What replaces the standard sound device? I have written some experimental programs that play and record sound using /dev/dsp and they work. Obviously, there is a lot of bad design in the world that works and I hear the discussion that says that /dev/dsp is out-dated so what is considered

Re: /dev/dsp Obsolete or Not?

2015-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Martin G. McCormick a écrit : What replaces the standard sound device? In short: ALSA. In long: the kernel devices for ALSA are present in /dev/snd/, but applications are not supposed to access them directly, they are supposed to solely rely on the API

Re: /dev/dsp Obsolete or Not?

2015-07-16 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Good answers. Thanks. Martin McCormick Nicolas George writes: In short: ALSA. In long: the kernel devices for ALSA are present in /dev/snd/, but applications are not supposed to access them directly, they are supposed to solely rely on the API exposed by the ALSA library,