Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LCP v0.1.0
From: Richard Guenther (rguenth_AT_tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 14:57:30 EET
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:09:00 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> >
> > Also what seems to be missing is the API part for querying
> > a host for its plugins and the plugins for its ports.
>
> The idea was that the host would be spawning the frontend (GUI, whatever).
> In LADSPA it is fairly simple for a frontend to inspect the plugin to find
> out what its ports are. OTOH it could be a wothwhile addition if we ever
> support frontends to "lambda networks".
>
> I don't really like the idea of specifying the ports by string as this
> makes the LADPSA case unnecesarily slow. It would require a lookup by the
> host for every parameter change.
For no param change rate this cost will be greater than the communication
cost involved anyway.
Richard.
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