https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=OSS_and_ALSA 2026-11-04T21:21:34Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.11 https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=OSS_and_ALSA&diff=60084&oldid=prev 2019-03-21T07:51:06Z

<p>DoesItReallyMatter moved page <a href="/ALSA/" class="mw-redirect" title="ALSA">ALSA</a> to <a href="/OSS_and_ALSA/" title="OSS and ALSA">OSS and ALSA</a>: Topic expansion</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 07:51, 21 March 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

DoesItReallyMatter https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=OSS_and_ALSA&diff=60083&oldid=prev 2019-03-21T07:48:21Z

<p>Attempt to clarify OSS/ALSA</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 07:48, 21 March 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Wikipedia|Advanced Linux Sound Architecture|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">label1</del>=ALSA<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Open Sound System|label2=OSS</del>}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Wikipedia<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Open Sound System|l1=OSS</ins>|Advanced Linux Sound Architecture|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l2</ins>=ALSA}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ALSA</del>''' or '''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Advanced Linux </del>Sound <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Architecture</del>''' is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>framework for audio on [[GNU/Linux]] systems, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> succeeding </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earlier OSS (Open Sound System) </del>framework. It is not itself a sound server like <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>PulseAudio<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>, it is just the Linux kernel code for handling sound as an {{API}}.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">OSS</ins>''' or '''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Open </ins>Sound <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">System</ins>''' is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>framework for audio on [[GNU/Linux]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and *BSD </ins>systems<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The GNU/Linux community eschewed OSS after improvements to the code were made [[proprietary]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though these were eventually re-released [[open source]].&lt;br /&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">OSSv4 is still used on [[FreeBSD]] and miscellaneous GNU/Linux distros.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''ALSA''' or '''Advanced Linux Sound Architecture''' is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more powerful replacement </ins>framework. It is not itself a sound server like PulseAudio, it is just the Linux kernel code for handling sound as an {{API}}. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [[PulseAudio]] and [[JACK]] are built on ALSA.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{VLC}} supports both as separate modules: {{docmod|oss}} and {{docmod|alsa}}.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Further reading ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Open_Sound_System</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Glossary]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Glossary]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:GNU/Linux]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:GNU/Linux]]</div></td></tr> </table>

DoesItReallyMatter https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=OSS_and_ALSA&diff=58746&oldid=prev 2019-03-01T05:25:31Z

<p>Create short reference page, wanted by 4 pages</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Wikipedia|Advanced Linux Sound Architecture|label1=ALSA|Open Sound System|label2=OSS}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;ALSA&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;Advanced Linux Sound Architecture&#039;&#039;&#039; is the framework for audio on [[GNU/Linux]] systems, succeeding the earlier OSS (Open Sound System) framework. It is not itself a sound server like [[PulseAudio]], it is just the Linux kernel code for handling sound as an {{API}}.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Glossary]]<br /> [[Category:GNU/Linux]]</div>

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