> > *There is esd, which is outdated and simply crappy. > > *There is artsd, which is better, but not good enough, and again, the > > app must be made to be aware of it in order to utilize it. > > *There is JACK project which has a huge potential but none of its > > effects are again universal, nor backwards-compatible with already > > released software. > > *There is Gstreamer, but I do not honestly know enough about it. > > Then make them better.
While I would like to thank you for your prompt response, I want to point out that I find your above statement rather discouraging. Not everyone is a low-level programmer, and not everyone should be one. Yet, with such statement you are implying exactly that: "for one to use Linux for multimedia, one has to be prepared to be able to do low-level coding in an environment that inherently suffers from lack of documentation." Although I've provided my humble coding contributions to the Linux community, I am by no means an adept programmer who is capable of dealing with the low-level stuff such as this (needless to say I have no clue where to start since documentation is less than sparse). Besides, I would love to help any of these projects to reach their "ripeness," but find most of them to be focused on things that need less urgent attention (i.e. JACK, as I understand it, focuses on inter-app audio communication in a highly efficient manner, requiring app-side implementation for any kind of dsp resource sharing, thus meaning there is currently no planned backwards-compatibility, unless the older apps are adapted to its architecture, which in itself is a rather far-fetched assumption that the other application developers will be willing to adapt their apps to this yet-and-if-to-be-established-standard). Majority of the older, but still maintained apps, access the /dev/dsp resources in an OSS fashion. Since my understanding is that Alsa is already capable of fooling these through its OSS emulation (that, if I am not mistaken, already transparently exists between the actual dsp resource and the app), wouldn't it be a rather easy step to make it also be capable of accepting multiple queries and down-mixing them before sending them to the actual dsp? Finally, why not merge the efforts of all these different groups/projects into one concise solution, rather than a dozen half-working ones? Sincerely, Ico _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
