Hello, A gentleman by the name of Abramo Bagnara recently stated he may have some code that would kick-start the development of the smix plugin. I think this is a very useful and increasingly important component. Abramo stated he had no problem releasing it, but I could not find where or if he did so.
If Abramo - or anyone - could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. The reasons I'm looking for this is to solve the following problems with soundcards that do not have a hardware mixer: When using Gnome/KDE (esd/arts) no programs can access the sound device unless they are written to use arts/esd/jack/etc... It is not logical for every program to write support for esd, artsd, jack, alsa, etc. Programs should write to ALSA and let ALSA do software mixing if required. Windows provided this since DirectX (3?). Solaris provides this too (esd apparently doesn't block on Solaris). I believe that the majority of sound cards in use (on Linux) do not have hardware mixing, and that this is already a large problem that will continue to get larger. One of the big reasons this is affecting me is that Java sound will not work unless you have a hardware mixer. My understanding is that the Sun folks seem to think that it is wrong to have to implement many different ways to create sound when the sound library (ALSA) should do it for them - the way it works in Windows/Solaris. I completely agree with them. Cheers. -- Schedule your world with ScheduleWorld.com http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
