Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 10:37, Kamil Rytarowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> OSS is the portable UNIX audio backend. We could point some flaws in it,
> but it's a good enough for portable UNIX applications. The question is
> what UNIX-like desktop OS does not implement it or removed it.

If your desktop's native audio API is pulse, like Linux's often
is, then you want to use pulse directly, because the compat layers
are (or were last time I looked) not great, and typically add
in an extra thread and an extra layer of buffering, which means
more latency or more audio dropouts or both.

thanks
-- PMM