Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Leonard Ritter
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:46 +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: Hm. In something like six years of using nVidia cards and their binary drivers, I have never had a problem that could be traced to the driver. Problems and lockups caused by the fan falling to bits are a different matter ;-) let me

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] FreeBoB bugfix release - libfreebob-1.0.3

2007-03-15 Thread Pieter Palmers
Dear FireWire enabled Linux audio users, libfreebob 1.0.3 is available as from today. It is downloadable at our SourceForge page: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freebob/libfreebob-1.0.3.tar.gz This is a maintenance release for the freebob 1.0 branch, and contains no new features. It fixes

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Pieter Palmers
Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:57:06PM +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The interface does not change that fast. But the argument that 'kernel developers need the freedom to change the driver interface when they want to' has been used as one of the reasons for not having a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Malte Steiner
I wonder what are the alternatives, if there are any I would jump instantly. Windows Vista in which nothing works and wastes CPU cycles to spy and torture you? OSX which comes with a hefty price, limits your choice (and money) and where cycles are wasted for blinky eyecandy? Is there any

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 13:12 +0100, Malte Steiner wrote: I wonder what are the alternatives, if there are any I would jump instantly. Windows Vista in which nothing works and wastes CPU cycles to spy and torture you? OSX which comes with a hefty price, limits your choice (and money) and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-15 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Steve Harris wrote: On 14 Mar 2007, at 10:10, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: i'm very new to ambisonics, so i may be wrong, but i think there are indeed stereo compatible first-order ambisonics streams. iirc, the format is called UHJ, and it matrixes WXY (lossily) into L/R (i.e. no height

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:00:46PM +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: unless i'm very much mistaken, UHJ-encoded material can be played back on any stereo rig without problems (some even report better stereo width and precision). Correct. the only drawback i heard about is that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Vince Werber
Just for the record... Windows Vista has been ban by the U.S. NIST... (National Institute of Science and Technology)... So things like that need to be considered... heh have a good day and a better tomorrow! vince On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Malte Steiner wrote: I wonder what are the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On 3/14/07, Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:56 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote: Besides, what you want is probably impossible. You can't have pre-comiled, binary-only drivers *and* a custom kernel. in

[linux-audio-dev] Open Sound System v4.0 released

2007-03-15 Thread Hannu Savolainen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Sound System v4.0 Released. CULVER CITY, CA, March 15, 2007: 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of Open Sound System (OSS) version 4.0 for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Open Server6 and UnixWare7. Open Sound System is a cross

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Getting out of the software game

2007-03-15 Thread Paul
Pieter Palmers [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Thu Mar 15, 2007 [12:56:26 PM] said: There is one thing that I found particularly frustrating about the lack of fixed API's: These fluctuations make it difficult to learn driver programming due to the lack of up-to-date documentation. Or the abundance of