Re: [linux-audio-dev] Open Sound System v4.0 released

From: Stéphane Letz <letz@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 10:05:47 EET

Le 15 mars 07 ŕ 21:24, Hannu Savolainen a écrit :

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Open Sound System v4.0 Released.
>
> CULVER CITY, CA, March 15, 2007: 4Front Technologies is announcing
> the availability of Open Sound System (OSS) version 4.0 for Linux,
> Solaris, FreeBSD, Open Server6 and UnixWare7.
>
> Open Sound System is a cross platform audio architecture that
> provides drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices
> and comes with an API that allows applications to be simply
> recompiled on any of the supported operating systems.
>
>
> New Features:
>
> o New and improved transparent Virtual Mixer engine
> - Allows up to 16 applications to share the same "real" audio
> device.
> - Supports recording and full duplex in addition to playback.
> - Ability to mix stereo and multichannel audio streams up to
> 7.1/192Khz/32bit.
> - Supports full 24 bit range without loss of precision during
> internal computations.
> - mmap() support for games like DoomIII and Quake4.
> - Each application has its own independant volume controls.
> - Supports loop back recording.
>
> o Full Solaris Audio Device Architecture (SADA) emulation on
> Solaris so that legacy
> Solaris audio apps can run on Open Sound System drivers.
>
> o Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) Library emulation
> support so that popular ALSA apps
> (the ones that use the ALSA library interface) can run on Open
> Sound System.

And ALSA emulating OSS API.... ))-: there is definitively something
wrong on this system....

Stephane
Received on Fri Mar 16 12:15:02 2007

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