Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Simple Plugin API: In/Out Ports
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: ti maalis 07 2000 - 21:03:41 EST
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
>
> > I cannot see what makes this system more complex. Plug-in author
> > writes his plug-in using whatever formats, and fills a table telling
> > flow network patcher what kind of formats it uses. Simple.
>
> Ok, this should be easy enough for the plugin developer. But we
> still have to worry about the host side. If host side gets too complex,
> it'll be difficult to persuade audio app authors to add LADSPA
> plugin hosting to their apps. So in practice, we need a libladspa
> package, which contains various helper functions (type conversions,
> etc).
As I described in some earlier mail, you don't even need that, if you
want to get away easy. Converter plugins and comparing data type
codes for ports when trying to connect is all you need - that leavs
it to the user to throw in converter plugins where needed. (If you
*really* don't want to hack a few lines of code to automate that...)
//David
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