On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:06:24PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

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> 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

> > (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.

I've been working on it.  libtool issues and crashing (use after

free()) problems are slowing me down.  at this point, I'm unsure

whether it's really any better than esound.
OTOH, I've been rather impressed with artsd.  recording audio from

radio(4) while listening to streaming mp3s using the same sound card

(in -current of course).  is that even possible with esound?  kinda

sucks though, that aRTs is being retired in kde4.
> > 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.

probably not; at least not anytime soon.
something for "newbie hackers" to work on: an ISC licensed audio daemon.
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