Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a),some questions

2002-06-03 Thread Bob Ham
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:38, Martijn Sipkema wrote: i have finally been able to get the information i need to be able to write a driver for the emagic audiowerk8 audio interface. Did emagic give you information about the hardware, or is it from some other source? -- Bob Ham: [EMAIL

[Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions

2002-05-31 Thread Martijn Sipkema
below is a message i sent earlier, but with the wrong email address: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions hi, i have finally been able to get the information i need to be able to write a driver for the emagic audiowerk8 audio interface. now since i am not an

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a),some questions

2002-05-31 Thread tomasz motylewski
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Martijn Sipkema wrote: - does alsa allow varipitch? i think the new rme cards are supposed to have this feature and the audiowerk8 has it, i.e. it can change its sampling rate from about 37700 to 58200 hz while running in 1hz increments. this allows for sync to

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions

2002-05-31 Thread Martijn Sipkema
- does alsa allow varipitch? i think the new rme cards are supposed to have this feature and the audiowerk8 has it, i.e. it can change its sampling rate from about 37700 to 58200 hz while running in 1hz increments. this allows for sync to video/tape/midi or whatever. or it allows

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions

2002-05-31 Thread Martijn Sipkema
- should i use the normal double buffered aproach or does having more than 2 buffers have advantages? most of pci drivers use a linear contigous buffer for pcm (per stream). the scatter-gather buffer is not supported yet on alsa (as a mid/high level layer -- it would be possible if you

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions

2002-05-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 31 May 2002 14:05:20 +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote: - should i use the normal double buffered aproach or does having more than 2 buffers have advantages? most of pci drivers use a linear contigous buffer for pcm (per stream). the scatter-gather buffer is not supported yet

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fw: writing audiowerk driver (philips saa7146a), some questions

2002-05-31 Thread Martijn Sipkema
there is a runtime instance for a pcm stream, and this holds the informaton such as the current rate, channels, formats, etc. there is no pitch parameter implemented in alsa, but this can be added easily into the runtime instance, if inevitablly necessary. i don't think the audiowerk is the