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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!news.dra.com!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "Voxware" for FreeBSD v2.1.x Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:42:57 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <328CF1F1.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <3288D701.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> John Lucas wrote: > I would like to install the "Real Audio" player on my FreeBSD v2.1.0R > system. I need to find (from the raplayer docs): > > * FreeBSD 2.1 with VoxWare 3.0 Beta sound driver The VoxWare driver has been a default part of the FreeBSD distribution for yonks now - you should be able to use RealAudio without doing anything more than configuring your sound card (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT for prototype information). > of VoxWare (now called OSS/Lite) for FreeBSD available for Also, OSS/Lite is slated to come into FreeBSD at some point in the near future, though I'm not sure when Hannu will have it ready. This is something I'd like to see all the PC based UNIXen (and a few of the non-PC based ones) standardize on since I don't know of anyone else even attempting to formulate a common API for UNIX audio. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project