Hi la{d,u}-folk,
New sfront release (0.76) [see change log & pickup info
below], the main item of interest to LAD folk is that
the audio driver API in sfront has been enhanced -- its
now relatively straightforward to use sfront with
low-level audio API's that use a callback approach.
See the active driver section of the sfront reference
manual chapter on audio drivers:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/devel/adriver/index.html#active
for details. I would think this API should be sufficient
for a LAAGA driver ...
To test out the active driver API, I added PortAudio-based
support for Windows to sfront (via both WMME and DSound,
see www.portaudio.com for more details on PortAudio). This
went pretty smoothly, I was able to do a complete test of
PortAudio integration w/o ever touching a Windows machine,
by using the PortAudio Linux driver as a stand-in during
testing ... and reports from users doing alpha-testing on
various Windows platforms were positive.
--jl
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Pick up sfront 0.76 9/23/01, at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html
Change log message:
[1] Enhanced audio
driver API to support
soundcard APIs that
require callback functions.
[2] New ps_win_wmme
and ps_win_ds audio
drivers, providing PortAudio
audio drivers for Windows
WMME and DirectSound APIs.
Thanks to the PortAudio
team, and testers Richard
Dobson, Peter Maas, Kees van
Prooijen, and Tim Thompson.
[3] Audio drivers now control
default time option selection.
[4] Many bugfixes in
SAOL audio bus system.
Thanks to Robert Sherry.
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John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley
lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro
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