http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/controllers/envy24/ Claims that it has "20-channel, 26-bit wide built in mixer". What does that mean?
2008/10/27 Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vedran Miletić wrote: >> Drivers that support hardware mixing: >> * snd_emu10k1 - ... >> * snd_cs46xx - ... >> * snd_au88x0 - ... > > * snd_ymfpci - for YMF7xx chips. Like most of the others, has been > discontinued and must be bought used. Used on several cards, e.g., > Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG (most of those cards have "XG" in > their name). > > If you want a supported wavetable synthesizer, get a SB Live! or Audigy. > If you want to do bit-exact recording from the SPDIF input, get a > YMF754B-based card. Otherwise, the chip doesn't matter. > >> Not sure about: >> * snd_ice1712 > > Does _not_ support hardware mixing. > >> Hardware does support it, and it did work on Windows. > > The Windows driver, like the drivers of most other cards, claims to > support multiple streams and does software mixing in the driver itself > instead of letting Windows do the mixing. Since Windows assumes that no > driver would do such a silly thing, the driver shows up as "supports > hardware mixing". > > > HTH > Clemens > -- Vedran Miletić ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
