On 2008-04-10, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would to ask about the issue to be found under Linux - is it valid for > OpenBSD's "audio" too?
No, OpenBSD doesn't resample. > http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=93315 > > "The latest versions of ALSA which are included with Ubuntu Edgy, and I > think Dapper Drake as well, will resample all audio to 48kHz if your > soundcard does not support hardware mixing. This is also true if the driver > doesn't support hardware mixing. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely > no support for hardware mixing with any of the Envy24 chips in Linux. The > problem with this resampling is that by default ALSA uses a poor resampling > algorithm to save CPU usage, and destroys the quality of everything played > back. ALSA uses this software mixing and resampling in order to let more > than one application play audio at the same time. I have found a solution to > the audio quality issue however. [..]"
