Nick Guenther  wrote:
> You'll probably want http://ports.openbsd.nu/audio/esound.
Yup.
> There's something called Pulse which is intended as a drop in

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> (but superior) replacement for esound, and someone () ported it to

> OpenBSD, but it's not in the tree yet.

Benoit Chesneau has done some promising work on a PulseAudio port,

and it's on my to-do list, but I haven't quite gotten around to it.
> there's no way (as far as I know) to sneakily make /dev/audio be a

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> software mixer. I don't know if the reason there's no /dev/audio_mix

> is technical, or if it's just that no one's done the work, or if it's

> just a tradition now.

It's a question of how much work you want to do in the kernel.

Merging audio streams in different formats and sampling rates is a

bit of a pain and I think our audio hackers don't really want to

do resampling in the kernel.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de