Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

> there's no way (as far as I know) to sneakily make /dev/audio be a
> 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.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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