On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Sid <[email protected]> wrote: > That's good that Jack isn't needed. > It appears, as of the last few months or year, OSS is able to play sounds > from different programs simultaneously. > > What about physical input jacks for mic and line in? > # cat /dev/sndstat > installed devices > pcm0: <Realtek ALC887 (Rear Analog)> (play/rec) default > pcm1: <Realtek ALC887 (Front Analog)> (play/rec) > pcm2: <Realtek ALC887 (Onboard Digital)> (play) > pcm3: <Realtek ALC887 (Rear Digital)> (play) > pcm4: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play) > One cluster of physical inputs/outputs can be chosen, but using more than > one set of inputs isn't always necessary. > > There are different implementations of OSS, because it has been often > forked or added into various projects, including under less permissive > licenses, still under the OSS name, to many times become cluttered. This is > common for a project of a permissive license to be taken in by various > projects, such as ALSA, that use GPL or even proprietary licenses. Most > forked OSS versions are made to suit or work under other sound > architectures, applications or an OS's purposes, not necessarily making > them better. I realize that FreeBSD's version of OSS is not depreciated, is > fairly efficient, and is functional as it is what FreeBSD uses as > /dev/sndstat. For the sound frontend, it depends on what the port/program > has available from OSS, SNDIO or portaudio, to play on FreeBSD's OSS > backend. > > I have a laptop with onboard stuff: Installed devices: pcm0: <Realtek ALC899 (Analog)> (play/rec) default pcm1: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Analog Line-out)> (play) pcm2: <Realtek ALC899 (Rear Digital)> (play) No devices installed from userspace.
The issue is FreeBSD doesn't have a lot of devs and instead of bringing what FreeBSD has inline with upstream, it seems like they want to say nope, just gonna keep on using our half forked version. > > > blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com - Fri Dec 15 07:49:28 UTC 2017 > > >> If I can provide OSS audio/midi input and output for the tools that I > use, > >> then I can do all the routing natively with OSS. > > > There's nothing in FreeBSD that makes the sound architecture only > support 1 audio device. > This 1 audio device thing hasn't been true for a very long time. It's things like these that go unchallenged and cause confusion. > These were issues with earlier versions of OSS implementation; please > remember the days of rebooting your system to get new devices to show up. > > > All those issues have been sorted out in OSS 4.0 and above. > > > OSS API is like working with file descriptors; > > > The open() system call > > The close() system call > > The read() system call > > The write() system call > > The ioctl() system call > > The select() and poll() system calls > > The mmap() system call > > > > Jack audio is NOT necessary, I already ported amsynth over to FreeBSD, > they had a very old implementation of OSS backend for midi that just worked > with my midi keyboard. > > I spoke to the developer and he also updated his code to the newest > version of OSS, here's some code: https://github.com/ > amsynth/amsynth/commit/7171bd4d945c5938442b80f4276b7e096f06a3a0#diff- > 0b31b8315cadf5e7556f54a245817f90[https://github.com/amsynth/ > amsynth/commit/7171bd4d945c5938442b80f4276b7e096f06a3a0#diff- > 0b31b8315cadf5e7556f54a245817f90] > > > There's a lot of misinfo out there about OSS being depreciated or dead, > that's not the case. > > From looking at what's available OSS is one of the most straight forward > and stable Audio API's out there. > > > If you want to test for yourself, install audio/oss then run osstest and > report back. > > > There's ALSA plugins for OSS that would provide better audio vs the way > things are implemented right now. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
