RE: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Marc Titinger
Hi all, I was looking for a good, up-to-date documentation pointer upon software features provided by alsa. But I'm new to this architecture and I might be intoxicated by some kernel streaming architectures : is there a kind of hardware abstraction with ALSA, e.g. features that are managed by

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
I was looking for a good, up-to-date documentation pointer upon software featu res provided by alsa. But I'm new to this architecture and I might be intoxic ated by some kernel streaming architectures : is there a kind of hardware ab straction with ALSA, e.g. features that are managed by the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:09:44 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: the other alternative that many of us here like rather a lot is JACK (http://jackit.sf.net/), which provides a different model: data sharing between applications, shared access to hardware, sample-synchronous execution of all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:09:44 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: the other alternative that many of us here like rather a lot is JACK (http://jackit.sf.net/), which provides a different model: data sharing between applications, shared access to hardware, sample-synchronous execution of all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread David Olofson
On Friday 24 January 2003 17.27, Paul Davis wrote: [...] (btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?) because that means we have a config file, which means we need a config file parser, which means we need to replicate a bunch of code or link against another library. if jackd was

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
(btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?) because that means we have a config file, which means we need a config file parser, which means we need to replicate a bunch of code or link against another library. if jackd was a commonly executed command for users, i could justify

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread David Olofson
On Friday 24 January 2003 18.22, Paul Davis wrote: (btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?) because that means we have a config file, which means we need a config file parser, which means we need to replicate a bunch of code or link against another library. if jackd was a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:27:12 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: not at all. it would allow programs to be run with no context switch overhead if they are started alone without jackd, which would be rather nice. we need to get in-process clients done first, though. Agreed and agreed. (btw, why

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
(btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?) because that means we have a config file, which means we need a config file parser, which means we need to replicate a bunch of code or link against another library. if jackd was a commonly executed command for users, i could justify

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread David Olofson
On Friday 24 January 2003 19.29, Paul Winkler wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: i've had the same idea. my approach would basically be to have libjack try to contact the server. if it fails, then it just starts up a thread to run the audio loop, and then

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Jack O'Quin
(btw, why jackd doesn't read /etc/jackrc or ~/.jackrc ?) On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:27:12 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: because that means we have a config file, which means we need a config file parser, which means we need to replicate a bunch of code or link against another library. if

[linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-23 Thread Matt Gerassimoff
Hello, I've been watching the mail on this list for some time. I've looked at as much documentation on the web as I can find. From alsa's web site to the linux audio developers web site. What I would like to know (or see in a FAQ or HOWTO) is how to setup a linux pro audio system. With