Hi On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Ichthyostega <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 04.04.2012 13:37, schrieb Christoph Limbach: > > I found ALSA to be quite problematic with several applications. But the reason > to blame is neither ALSA, nor the RME / hdsp interface. The actual problem > seems to be that ALSA is quite low-level and "close to the hardware". > And, unfortunately, the majority of open source programmers just seem to > be too lazy to get their a** up and implement the ALSA interface properly > and to full extent. > You are right, ALSA inteface is programmed very poorly in Cinelerra. As everything else what is 'near' the hardware.
> as a sidenote: with current kernels, when you choose "OSS", what you > get is actually an emulation of the deprecated old OSS output by forwarding > to ALSA. PortAudio is similar, but actually even another layer of abstraction > on top: it automatically connects through Jack, Pulse, ESD, ALSA or OSS. In Cinelerra OSS is an exeption: seems that this is well written :). > >> in cinelerra, also the "VU"- meters dont show any activity. I tried alsa and >> other sound options.. no more ideas what i can do... > > First off, the VU meters in Cinelerra *must* be showing some output on > playback. Just tested: VU meters don't work if Cinelerra fails to open Audio output. Einar _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
