[linux-audio-dev] plugin loaders

2006-12-20 Thread Anthony Green
I understand that LADSPA and friends specifically exclude any functionality around how to find and load plugins, but it seems that a lot can be gained by introducing some standards in this area. As a package of audio apps/plugins for a Linux distro, here are two of the problems I see: 1.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] plugin loaders

2006-12-20 Thread Leonard Ritter
Hi Anthony, I guess most of us use the sample enumeration c code included with the LADSPA sources as starting point. This code expects a LADSPA_PATH variable to be set. As a fallback, I suppose most programmers added /usr/lib/ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa, but all of them should support

Re: [linux-audio-dev] plugin loaders

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:43 -0800, Anthony Green wrote: I understand that LADSPA and friends specifically exclude any functionality around how to find and load plugins, but it seems that a lot can be gained by introducing some standards in this area. As a package of audio apps/plugins for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] plugin loaders

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 02:02 +0100, Leonard Ritter wrote: Hi Anthony, I guess most of us use the sample enumeration c code included with the LADSPA sources as starting point. This code expects a LADSPA_PATH variable to be set. As a fallback, I suppose most programmers added