At Mon, 22 May 2006 03:59:27 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:30 +0200, Peter Zubaj wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:13 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > > > There are more and more soundcards like ca0106 (near all new). ALSA > > should emulate features which card doesn't have (if user want to do > > this) in software and I don't think .asoundrc is good for average user. > > It is already being worked on - for example the 5.1 upmix plugin and the > a52 (software AC3 encoding) plugin in ALSA 1.0.11. The next step is > whether and how to enable it by default. Right. I think some "speaker-set" presets for each driver would be nice so that the control-center GUI can simply choose one from the list.
> I think one of the biggest problems with ALSA is there is no API to > enumerate the available devices. As a result no ALSA app has a > reasonable device selection menu - it's all free form entry, and there's > no good user documentation on ALSA device naming. qjackctl is the best > there is and it is only able to enumerate hw devices. Yep. There are some prepared materials in the API level but they are not really working. > We also need software volume control per PCM stream (like the emu10k1 > does in hardware). Technically speaking, the per-app volume control is relatively easy to implement unless you want to export the volume control to other processes. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
