Hello, I work for AudioScience (www.audioscience.com)
We make excellent (how could I say otherwise) audio cards. The emphasis within the company has been on microsoft windows drivers. ... but we have a Linux driver, currently proprietary, closed source, that exposes this (http://www.audioscience.com/internet/download/spchpi.pdf) API. (It may be possible to release the host side code, but never the DSP code on the cards.) I think it would be much better if we had an ALSA driver. I'd like some idea how hard it would be to write an ALSA driver either as a compatibility layer on top of our existing driver, or from the ground up. I realise that this is rather a broad question, so please consider this an invitation to enter discussion, rather than a request for you to go off and do a lot of work for me. Oh - what do you think of the cards' feature set? Some distinctive things about our cards (not all have all features) - they have on board DSP. Code is downloaded by the driver. - they have a lot of on board buffer memory (hundreds of K at least) - on board DSP handles decompression/compression - mixing - samplerate conversion or multiple outputs at different rates - analog and digital audio I/O, balanced drivers ================================================= Eliot Blennerhassett *:-{)> AudioScience, Inc. (New Zealand Office) 6 Centaurus Rd Christchurch 8002 Mobile: +64 21 1183531 New Zealand Ph/fax: +64 3 3327818 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.audioscience.com> =================================================
