Re: [fuse-devel] [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

[Jan E. <je...@me...>]

On Friday 2008-11-28 03:23, Tejun Heo wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Thursday 2008-08-28 22:01, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:05:53PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> Hello again,
>>>>
>>>> So, after all the fuss, here's the state-of-the-art standard-compliant
>>>> cloud-computing web-3.0-beta web page for OSS emulation using CUSE.
>>>>
>>>>   http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/ossp/
>>>>
>>>> It works pretty well here.  :-)
>>> Sorry for being destructive, but 6 years after ALSA went into the
>>> kernel we are slightly approaching the point where all applications 
>>> support ALSA.
>> 
>> Unreal Tournament GOTY/99 does not (seem to). And I doubt someone
>> is going to fix commercial games. Though being a static binary,
>> its use of shared libraries that do the sound device open makes
>> aoss a possibility, if that helps. But it does not support ALSA
>> natively - and would make a point for CUSE.
>
>The devel version of ossp (not out yet, waiting for CUSE and mmap
>support merge) can do all the quakes (even the dreaded quake1 which
>even ALSA OSS emulation or native OSS can't do because of strict
>sample/freq requirement which modern devices don't support anymore)

Quake won't be a problem because its source was released.

>and skype-static-oss are working fine.

Skype should burn in hell...

>The latency is still a tad bit
>high due to PA interaction but everything is mostly in place.  I'm
>fairly sure UT would work too.  Do you know where I can get a demo of
>it?

It has become really difficult to obtain these nowadays, but there it is:

http://download.beyondunreal.com/get.php/2/official/ut/utdemo-linux-x86-348.tar.gz


(BTW, Firefox3 screws up on loading
http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut/utdemo-linux-x86-348.tar.gz
w3m works fine and was used to obtain the nested link above.)