[pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Neil Wilson
Hi all, I have pulseaudio running on Ubuntu and send the sound digitally to a set of High end digital speakers. Since it is Hi-Fi, the work I'm doing involves ensuring wherever possible that the digital bits are not disturbed by the software systems the value is passing through - unless it has to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Neil Wilson at 30/11/09 10:33 did gyre and gimble: That got me thinking. Can pulseaudio maintain a 'clean path' throughout the entire software chain? Not yet. The intention is to add passthrough support to ensure that we do not decode+reencode unless needed. This will allow

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Neil Wilson
2009/11/30 Colin Guthrie : >> Additionally when I was doing a parec on the Monitor and used the >> 'float32ne' format it seemed to come out Big Endian on an Intel >> machine, which surprised me a little. Is that a bug or did I miss >> something? > > ne = network endian IIUC which is always big end

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Neil Wilson at 30/11/09 11:50 did gyre and gimble: 2009/11/30 Colin Guthrie : Additionally when I was doing a parec on the Monitor and used the 'float32ne' format it seemed to come out Big Endian on an Intel machine, which surprised me a little. Is that a bug or did I miss so

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
ma, 2009-11-30 kello 10:33 +, Neil Wilson kirjoitti: > Hi all, > > I have pulseaudio running on Ubuntu and send the sound digitally to a > set of High end digital speakers. Since it is Hi-Fi, the work I'm > doing involves ensuring wherever possible that the digital bits are > not disturbed by

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-11-30 Thread Neil Wilson
2009/11/30 Tanu Kaskinen : > Are you sure your files had the same sample format as what your sound > card uses? If pulseaudio doesn't need to do mixing or resampling or > sample format conversion, I'm surprised if the bytes are touched. No they definitely aren't. That's part of the question I sup

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-12-01 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
ma, 2009-11-30 kello 19:51 +, Neil Wilson kirjoitti: > 2009/11/30 Tanu Kaskinen : > > > Are you sure your files had the same sample format as what your sound > > card uses? If pulseaudio doesn't need to do mixing or resampling or > > sample format conversion, I'm surprised if the bytes are tou

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 30.11.09 10:33, Neil Wilson (n...@aldur.co.uk) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have pulseaudio running on Ubuntu and send the sound digitally to a > set of High end digital speakers. Since it is Hi-Fi, the work I'm > doing involves ensuring wherever possible that the digital bits are > not disturb

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 30.11.09 11:22, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > >Additionally when I was doing a parec on the Monitor and used the > >'float32ne' format it seemed to come out Big Endian on an Intel > >machine, which surprised me a little. Is that a bug or did I miss > >something? > > ne = n