Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Toward a modularizationof audio component
From: Karl MacMillan (karlmac_AT_peabody.jhu.edu)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 23:27:47 EEST
> I have to say that my aim is more ambitious: reusable audio components.
>
> - audio file format encoder/decoders
> - audio file dropout free reader/writer
> - FX
> - visual scopes
> - etc.
>
> I think that now we have enough experience (distributed on several
> brains, as we like it ;-) to design an architecture that permit all this
> and I'm sure that this would bring great benefits for consumer audio and
> *huge* benefits for professional audio.
>
> I think that you can help yourself to understand the impact of such an
> architecture making a parallel with the impact of pipes on Unix world.
>
This is a great vision. I think that many of us are simply questioning
whether the alsa api is the correct location for this.
Karl
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| Karl W. MacMillan |
| Computer Music Department |
| Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University |
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