On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jussi Laako <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/17/2009 04:58 PM, Victor Lazzarini wrote: >> Through which API? I not sure I understand audio IO on Vista, with the >> concurrent existence of several APIs. Never mind, perhaps this is a >> bit OT in a Linux Audio list... > > There's WASAPI and rest is practically emulated on top of it. > > The good side is that there's practically one API where the programmer > can choose if he wants to do casual audio with mixing and samplerate > conversion (always floats) or he can talk directly to the hardware in > native sample format if needed. There is also possibility to pipeline > and connect different audio elements there (like effects etc). > > So it's kind of ALSA, jack and pulseaudio combined behind one API...
yeah, they actually took a lot of good lessons from CoreAudio, which has been doing all that for years. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
