On Friday 14 Nov 2003 15:31, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:11:22 +0000, Mark Hubbard wrote: > > On Friday 14 Nov 2003 13:20, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > as a future plan, we'll define dmix as default for el-cheapo > > > soundcards, but e.g. not for sb live, which supports such a function > > > on hardware. > > > > And what is your definition of an "el-cheapo" soundcard? :) > > what requires dmix plugin :)
In that case, Audiotrak, Terratec and M-Audio sound cards are "el-cheapo", and Creative sound cards are "high quality"! > > I object to this future plan as even users of consumer soundcards do not > > necessarily want everything resampled to 48 KHz in software by default > > with the inherent sound quality degradations. > > hmm, we can implement it in a bit more clever way. for example, > starting dmix with the sample rate of the first running process sets > (with lower boundary, e.g. the rate must be >= 44100). in 99% time of > typical desktop usage, audio apps run alone, and no conversion will be > necessary. > > of course, we need to fix the race condition, etc, to realize that. Ah, I see, the "default dmix" will NOT have a fixed sample rate and as such it will work more like Window's KMixer. ;) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
