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Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams by ptx on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:06PM (#28504412)
Interestingly, FreeBSD and Linux both started with the same audio stack (OSS) and both rewrote it twice[1], but FreeBSD has kept the original OSS API while adding essentially the same features, it seems.

The big selling-point of ALSA, from what I remember, was that OSS couldn't provide mixing to support multiple applications - but FreeBSD's OSS does that. Some of the main selling-points of PulseAudio are per-application volume, low latency and high-quality resampling, all of which FreeBSD's OSS claims to do as well.

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound

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Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams by rofrol on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:21PM (#28506852)
The same features? Interesting. Hiw about bluetooth audio? Support for wayland?
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Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams by nsajko on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:39PM (#28506962)
Wayland is Linux-only.
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Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams by fgrsnau on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:48AM (#28508513)
Not true: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland

I run sway on FreeBSD and haven’t observed problems.

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