Brian Furey wrote: > with the ALSA driver, what do the OSS substream mean?
There are no "OSS substreams". ALSA PCM devices have substreams. A device with more than one substream can be opened multiple times simultaneously. > If you have a 2 main capture channels, how many substream would > you have? Depends on the hardware, and is completely unrelated to the number of channels. > Also the capture stream is supposed to operate at 8000 > Hz per second. 8000 Hz is just the default. > Is it possible that it is actually say 8192, a value to the > power-of-two? It's 8000, for historical reasons (the standard rate of some telephony codec, which was then used on some early UNIX systems, or something like that). HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
