[nas] Re: OSS emulation on top of NAS - beta test

[Jon Trulson]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Paul Fox wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:40:44 -0500
> From: Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: [nas] Re: OSS emulation on top of NAS - beta test 
> 
>  > 
>  > I've released the first public test version of my libaudiooss library. It
>  > allows you to transparently redirect OSS audio output to a NAS server, in
>  > the vein of esddsp.
> 
> i'm finally in a position where i have all of my ducks in a row to
> actually be able to listen to music on my diskless client which
> normally runs NAS, and so i'm wondering how libaudiooss works, and
> what its status is these days.
> 
> what exactly does it do?  intercept opens of /dev/audio?
> 

	WooHoo! ;-) Erik has a page at
http://www.mo.himolde.no/~knan/linux.html where there is some information
on it...

	Basically, it's (currently) a Linux LD_PRELOAD library that
intercepts open/ioctl/write/read et.al. to /dev/mixer,audio,etc... It then
driects the sound to a NAS server somewhere.  Works pretty well... 


> does it work with common interesting sound "producers", like mpg123,
> and rvplayer?
> 

	I've not tried rvplayer myself, but have used timidity, xmms, sox,
and mpg123 with success.  The README on his page list some things known to
work...


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