On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:37:00PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:54:11PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > personally, I don't think there any point in an audio backend for > > > sox. aucat can read from stdin and sox can output to stdout. > > > > Well, yes. However, sox includes various audio backends and the > > port has supported direct audio via OSS or native audio for a long > > time. I don't want to take that away. > > sure. I guess it could be used in some scripts like that. > > I agree with Brad then, just use libao. libao defaults to using sndio, > right? >
libao is play-only, but sox requires recording capabilities. I've quickly looked at the sox sources, it seems to use simple blocking read/write-like semantics and doesn't use full-duplex. once the update is in tree, i'll do the backend, especially if someone helps me properly updating the autoxxx scripts. -- Alexandre
