[Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
I been doing some reading on using the alsa API, however, I cannot find much information on it. It also look like that the different versions have different argument for the same API. For example, the snd_pcm_open( ) some use snd_pcm_open( handle, card, device, stream, mode) some use

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:19:16AM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: I try to run the minimal playback program from the tutorial found in the alsa web site, snd_pcm_t *handle; char *device = hw:0,0; Shouldn't the tutorial be using default, if that's what programs that don't care should be using?

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
The sample in the tutorial use command line argument, so I try to follow the sine wave generation code in this url http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/_2test_2pcm_8c-example.html it use char *device = hw:0,0; I try to pass the string default to the function, but still get an

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:44:38PM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: I try to pass the string default to the function, but still get an error -2 (No such file or directory) Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if /dev/snd/* doesn't exist.) Thanks for your help, I think I need to go back and check my alsa installation. Strange enough though, my xine palyer works fine and I have

[Alsa-devel] alsa-api question

2002-06-27 Thread joy ping
hi, i currently writing a plugin for alsa9 and i'm thinking of various paramters which could be set and if there are usefull for example does someone know 'good' values for snd_pcm_sw_params_set_xfer_align(), in the code samples it varies from 1 to 4, is it also usefull to set it to higher

Re: [Alsa-devel] alsa-api question

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Davis
i currently writing a plugin for alsa9 and i'm thinking of various paramters which could be set and if there are usefull for example does someone know 'good' values for snd_pcm_sw_params_set_xfer_align(), in the code samples it varies from 1 to 4, is it also usefull to set it to higher values for