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OpenSolaris Project: Open Sound System

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Introduction

Open Sound System is an audio subsystem that provides a cross platform API and device drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices for UNIX® and POSIX based operating systems, including Linux. Owing to its open architecture, applications developed on one supporting operating system platform can be easily recompiled on any other platform. Open Sound System on Solaris supports x86, AMD64 and Sparc processors. It also provides support for the Solaris Audio API (SADA or commonly known as devaudio). SADA applications will transparently run on top of Open Sound System drivers and will co-exist with OSS API compatible applications.

Features

• Supported audio formats
• Supports 8/16/24/32 bits/sample audio formats
• Supports sampling rates from 8KHz up to 192KHz
• Supports mono, stereo, quad, 5.1, 7.1 and multichannel audio devices
• Transparent Software based Audio Mixer
• Allows applications to share the same "real" audio device regardless of what format is requested by the application.
• Supports recording and full duplex in addition to playback.
• Ability to mix stereo and multichannel audio streams up to 7.1/192Khz/32bit.
• Supports full 24 bit range without loss of precision during internal computations.
• Each application has its own independant volume controls.
• Supports loop back recording. This enables you to "record-what-you-hear". Typically this is useful for recording streaming audio or trapping audio from applications
• 64bit internal processing guarantees audio fidelity and precision if the audio data needs to be converted.
• New device enumeration and mixer API makes it very easy to manage devices programatically.

Source Code

Open Sound System is available under CDDL v1 at: http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/sources/stable/

Requirements to build the source code:

• Solaris v10 or Nevada (latest build) - note that binaries built on Nevada are not backwards compatible so if you need to run binaries on both Solaris 10 and 11 we recommend building on Solaris 10
• Sun Studio 10 or later
• GNU gawk - get x86 or Sparc versions at: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xml
• Solaris OS system headers, development libraries and header files for GTK2+
• Recommended build path: /usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:$PATH

API Specifications

http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/