On Friday 05 October 2007 16:56:59 Luis Agustín Nieto wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We wish to undertake a new project for college (we are students of Computer > Science at University of Buenos Aires) and the idea is to develop a virtual > sound card driver which is capable of capturing the sound output generated > by any standard Linux application, in order to do something with these data > (for example dumping them to a file). > > We are not sure about which level this driver should be implemented at. We > would like to avoid, when possible, any low level or hardware related > dealing. One approach that we've been considering is to write something at > the same level of ALSA or OSS (i.e. with the same API), which somehow could > be registered in the system and made available to the "client" app's as > another selectable sound system.
Probably ALSA would be the one to go for, as most modern software uses it. > We are a little confused about the Linux's sound architecture and would > like to have some starting point to begin dealing with this project. We > would appreciate any help. You might want to have a look at http://www.craknet.net/joss/ to see how someone wrote an app to capture OSS audio (in this case from Quake3) and pass it out to Jack. Gordon _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
