Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-04 Thread Joshua Haberman
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 05:12, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > Hi, > > > The only disadvantage I see in the above scheme is that there is some > > duplication of code between PortAudio and gstreamer. But this seems > > irreconcilable; GStreamer isn't useful for Multimedia-editing > > applications (

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-04 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, > The only disadvantage I see in the above scheme is that there is some > duplication of code between PortAudio and gstreamer. But this seems > irreconcilable; GStreamer isn't useful for Multimedia-editing > applications (unless they were built from the ground up to use it), and > I doubt GSt

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-04 Thread Stephane Letz
> >Paul: (2) above may make you nervous, but look at it this way. You have >said in the past that every Mac OS X application is capable of >interchanging audio data out of the box, thanks to CoreAudio. The flip >side of that coin is that CoreAudio was written to be usable by every >application e

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-03 Thread Joshua Haberman
The next version of PortAudio supports blocking read/write for host apis that support it directly: http://www.portaudio.com/docs/proposals/005-BlockingReadWriteInterface.html In my opinion, CSL is redundant in the face of PortAudio; PortAudio is more mature, both in interface and implementation (

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-02 Thread Stefan Westerfeld
Hi! On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:21:20PM +0100, Jozef Kosoru wrote: > Well, AFAIK the current CSL implementation is rather poor. There is > aRts and OSS output only (not even ALSA!) and no pluginable interface > yet. Well, you're right. CSL is not complete, and probably will not be for some time

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-03-02 Thread Stefan Westerfeld
Hi! On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:29PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >No. PortAudio makes a lot of choices for the software developer, and thus > >provides an easy abstraction. > > The point is that PortAudio follows the same basic abstraction that > the audio APIs on the overwhelmingly dominant

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-02-27 Thread Sebastien Metrot
Original Message - From: "Paul Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 27 February, 2003 18:39 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd) > well, there are at least two sets of evidence to consider ther

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Davis
>designed to achieve a certain purpose. From the PortAudio homepage: > >| PortAudio is intended to promote the exchange of audio synthesis software >| between developers on different platforms, and was recently selected as the >| audio component of a larger PortMusic project that includes MIDI and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-02-27 Thread Jozef Kosoru
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:21:10PM +0100, Stefan Westerfeld wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:20:22 -0500 > > From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [linux-aud

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

2003-02-27 Thread Stefan Westerfeld
Hi! On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:20:22 -0500 > From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation > > >There are discussions on kde-multime