On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 07:12:45AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Unfortunately, compiling with portaudio-v19 enabled would break things > for many users. Audacity's portaudio-v19 support is experimental and > incomplete. PortAudio v19 is only available as a development snapshot, > and at the moment it does not support all of Audacity's features.
Does that still hold? The statement is a year old. > I will also look into providing a separate audacity-alsa binary package, > as an alternative to the stable portaudio-v18 package. (I would welcome > a patch to provide this.) Patching that in isn't easy because the package uses cdbs, which doesn't seem to be geared towards building multiple binary packages from the same source while configuring differently. You can see the abiword package, for reference how to do this in a conventionally built package. > > Recording functionality and particularly duplex support is extremely > > limited in Audacity when using OSS. > > Can you elaborate on this? Audacity should have no problems recording > in full duplex with most OSS drivers (or ALSA drivers and OSS emulation). Well, for example, recording from the digital input of my Zoltrix Nightingale Pro 6 doesn't work at all without ALSA support compiled into audacity. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
