Re: NSSound and gsnd

[Yen-Ju Chen]

I just found out that FreeBSD also support virtual sound channels
(see handbook), which makes life more easy.
If most platforms support multiple channels,
the sound daemon is actually not necessary.
I remembered BSD and Linux use OSS by default,
which means they all support virtual multiple channels.
Have no idea about Mac and Windows.

By the way, there is an another audio output library, DBMix,
(equivalent to portaudio) worthy to consider.
I think the most important part is the built-in mixer.
http://dbmix.sourceforge.net/

Yen-Ju

> From: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
> To: GNUstep Discuss Mailing List <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: NSSound and gsnd
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:50:19 +0200 (MEST)
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> >   Anyway, a sound daemon is required no matter which library to use
> >   so that every application can output the sound into the daemon
> >   and mix together.
> >   gsnd is already a good start.
>
> I use alsa on linux which is able to mix output together from several
> applications using sound hardware if that supports it. In this case a
> daemon is not needed and just wastes cpu cycles. Some support for this or
> at least a possibility to use NSSound without a daemon on platforms where
> this works would be nice in GNUstep.
>
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan
>
>
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