[Nix-dev] Sound on NixOS

[Marc Weber]

Hi,

I thought that ALSA was the way to go until now:
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html

There is OSSv4. Maybe we should try to support it as well?

According to this blog:
OSSv4 pro:
  - lower latency
  - higher quality software mixing
  - volume control for each application (So you don't need a pulseaudio
    daemon or such adding latency)

con:
  - No software suspend support. You have to restart the applications
  using it
  - No midi Support ?

Have you any experiences with OSSv4?

You can make alsa output to OSS as well using alsa-plugins.
OSSv4 has  a ALSA layer which is said to be buggy (?)

So those applications which do support ALSA only can output to OSSv4 as
well.