Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ???
From: Thomas Webb (magusofthedark_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 01:38:53 EEST
> >The prob. w/ portaudio is it abstracts to OSS, not
> >ALSA and I'd rather not take the least-common
> >denominator road.
>
> No. PortAudio abstracts to a callback model. Its
> closer to JACK than
> either OSS or ALSA. It isn't any closer to ALSA than
> it is to OSS.
I phrased that poorly. Say someone has ALSA and
doesn't have OSS compatibility. Would an app written
in portaudio work on their sys? If it doesn't, then
that's what I meant by that it doesn't abstract to
ALSA. If it does, then What I said was wrong, my bad.
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