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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2006-02-21 16:13:57 +0000
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2006-02-21 16:13:57 +0000
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- Reorganized the directory structure: Now each plugin(s) is loaded in own subdirectory. - Added polypaudio plugin by Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se> - Fixed COPYING file to LGPL (under which all codes are released, so far)
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+OSS <--> ALSA PCM plugin
+========================
+
+This plugin converts the ALSA API over OSS API. With this plugin,
+ALSA native apps can run on OSS drivers.
+
+This plugin provides the PCM type "oss". The typical configuration
+looks like below:
+
+ pcm.oss {
+ type oss
+ device /dev/dsp
+ }
+
+Put the above to ~/.asoundrc (or /etc/asound.conf), and use "oss" PCM
+with your ALSA apps. For example,
+
+ % aplay -Doss foo.wav
+
+For playing arbitrary formats, you should use "plug" layer together,
+
+ % aplay -Dplug:oss foo.wav
+
+The oss plugin can have an option: device. This specifies the device
+file path of OSS to open. If not given, /dev/dsp is used.
+
+The function supported by this plugin is limited. For example, you
+cannot use dmix together with this plugin. Don't expect too much :)
+
+The plugin is installed in /usr/lib/alsa-lib directory as default,
+which is the default search path of additional plugins for alsa-lib.
+On a 64bit system like x86-64, the proper prefix option (typically,
+--prefix=/usr/lib64) must be given to configure script.