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From: Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 23:11:46 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9front] [drawterm] Pulse audio output and input
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X-Bullshit: abstract flexible SOAP over YAML configuration out-scaling control 

while native support is nice, i'd like to note it's possible to use
padsp(1) to run OSS programs under PulseAudio.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 5:16 PM <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:
>
> i'm not an expert on current linux audio interfaces.
> can you explain why this is a good idea to link against pa?
>
> i dont like having a separate Make.pulse for it as this
> will just end up with combinatorial explosion. maybe we
> should have it changable at the make command line or
> use it as a default as linux has no support for /dev/dsp
> anymore?
>
> is oserror() the right thing for error handling? it appears
> to return its own error code but we'r not using it?
>
> also, how is buffering handled? how much will be buffered
> by this interface when you write to it? this is important
> as games use /dev/audio for synchronization.
>
> --
> cinap