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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by NexRebular on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:58PM (#26059663)
I'll never understand why there is not that many pro audio applications on FreeBSD. Its OSS seems to be lot simpler and nicer than all the n+1 systems I see in the linux world...
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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by jcelerier on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:33AM (#26062061)
The problem is that the OSS model of needing to call read/write for audio I/O is pretty hard to fit with the expected pro audio model of "get a callback called when data is ready", likely through some hardware interruption.
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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by trasz on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:36AM (#26062451)
OSS supports mmap, at least on FreeBSD.
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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by jolmg on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:10PM (#26059730)
Because potential user base is even smaller than on Linux is my guess.
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