On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Kim Therkelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes , I understand, there probably is no simple answer. > I normally make applications for Microsoft Windows and don't know much about > Linux. > If you make a virtual sound card in Windows you have a solution that covers > all applications. > I assume it must be possible to do something similar in Linux.
No, this isn't true. Virtual sound cards in Windows don't cover all applications. Linux also has such "virtual sound cards" (via a variety of different mechanisms) but just as the most common way to implement a virtual sound card on Windows won't address apps like Sonar or Reason (or it certainly won't address their issues), the "virtual sound cards" on Linux will work well for some applications and not for others. > I want to use the solution in Meego, Android, and Google Chrome OS - if > possible. it would have been useful for you to have described this up front - you're clearly operating in a very different application niche than most (not all) of the developers on this list. for most of us, mobile device targetting is not particularly central, and the technologies that we generally use to get audio in and out of the computer are pretty different than the ones that would be used on your system. most/many of us here are pretty firmly rooted on the desktop, in environments where low latency is important and the i/o devices are often *not* built into the system (and in some cases, may not even be accessible via ALSA). i'm afraid i don't have anything to offer for solutions in this kind of environment, but perhaps someone else will. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
