>oss on Linux is currently unmaintained hm both seem to me maintained
As far as i can see there is was a bugfix in Aug 2014 for non bsd systems https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commit/e5f38003c73c8584936ef551f851c50775bb2925 https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commits/master/modules/audio_output/oss.c and for oss there a recent fixes too: http://sourceforge.net/p/opensound/git/ci/58f453726ef777e338318d933be56d593363a3d7/log/?path=
