[linux-audio-dev] Mp3 File Decoder

2002-02-25 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Group, Until now I use Xaudio for my application xgmc. I want to get rid of it because *It seems very out of date *it when decoding it outputs much 0's at at the very first output. I dont want this. I immediately want data. *It seems that the granularity in positioning within within the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
>> My own approach to this has tended to be to deliver data directly to >> the device driver (i.e. do not use a "sequencer" layer) at my best >> approximation to when it should be delivered to the wire, and assume >> that the device driver and the hardware will work hard to do the best >> they can

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> I think this is much harder than you think :) Most MIDI devices cannot > tell you when MIDI data will be delivered to the wire. Even the at the > hardware level, there is a (small) FIFO that buffers between the > device driver and the UART chip. On decent hardware, this tends to be > 8-16 bytes

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> >Another thing, does jack support pitch for hardware that has it? > > JACK doesn't directly interact with audio hardware at all. Only a JACK > driver does that. At this time, the only existing driver is written to > use the ALSA API to interact with audio interface hardware. It doesn't > know a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] foundry

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 07:54, David Fletcher wrote: > > > "SK" == Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SK> The idea was brought up, because I say quite a few site a > SK> sourceforge, which have a link " is part of the > SK> foundry" at their top. I though it would probably >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Fred Gleason
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > I've never come across audio hardware that has this feature, and I'm > not sure I'd want to. You can't, for example, use external word clock > with such a device (not without some hairy firmware on the hardware), > which means it would hard to use it in an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
>OK. So say I have an application dealing with audio video and MIDI. Most >of the time the audio will be used for the clock providing 'performance >time'. Video and MIDI will have to be synced to this time. in my experience (limited), its really hard to convince the video people to buy this. the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
One thing I forgot to answer: >Another thing, does jack support pitch for hardware that has it? JACK doesn't directly interact with audio hardware at all. Only a JACK driver does that. At this time, the only existing driver is written to use the ALSA API to interact with audio interface hardware

[linux-audio-dev] foundry

2002-02-25 Thread David Fletcher
> "SK" == Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SK> The idea was brought up, because I say quite a few site a SK> sourceforge, which have a link " is part of the SK> foundry" at their top. I though it would probably SK> useful for media-related projects too. The more I think about it, SK>

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> The envisioned used for UST in dmSDK/OpenML seems to be merely as a > way to correct drift, but this could be a rather bad idea if the > source of UST isn't synchronized with the hardware driving the > reference output stream. For example, the natural source of UST on an > Intel system would be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Stefan Kost
Hello Kai, > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Stefan Kost wrote: > > >>Just to quickly introduce myself, as I am new to the list (and to >>linux/unix-audio too), I am working since 1983 on a audio-processing >>package which is called SoundFX (see http://www.sonicpulse.de) and is >>avaiable form the Amiga-p

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
>You are correct in saying that UST/MSC can't provide sample accurate >audio sync, and I don't think it is ment for that. This has to be done at >the hardware level. it has to be done on 2 levels: * participating hardware outputs need to be able to ensure that their rate of data consu

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-02-25 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> >The idea of a single 'system clock', (POSIX CLOCK_MONOTONIC would do) > >to synchronise different media streams and midi (which is not in > >OpenML) is the correct way IMHO. > > in existing digital systems, the way you synchronize independent > streams is to provide a common *driving* clock sig