OSS v4.0by Dev Mazumdar
March 20th, 2007Finally, OSS v4.0 is here. Its taken some time, and now we have a truly advanced audio system with the industrial quality and ease of use. With OSS it’s very easy to play DVDs with 5.1 surround sound, run Doom3, run Skype or play MP3s via XMMS, concurrently. You don’t need to mess around with any sound setup scripts or need to shut down one application before starting the other. With OSS, each app gets its own volume control.
Many more things are yet to come in OSS v4.0, the effects and equalizer in softoss, MIDI and the synthesizer support. All these features will come out this year.
It’s been quite a lot to handle for us as a small company, but we have some good illustration of what cross-platform support means. With the right ideas and design, incredible things are possible.