Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] rawmidi && alsa
From: Abramo Bagnara (abramo_AT_alsa-project.org)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 01:09:37 EEST
Paul Davis wrote:
>
> >>What more information do you need ? There is no way to get faster
> >>transmission speeds without buffering at one end or the other, since
> >>the ultimate target will (for many, many years) be operating at
> >>31.25kb. If this buffering exists (and it must), then the fact that
> >>the bits stream between two points on their journey at 100MB/sec
> >>doesn't do anything to alter the point-to-point speed being
> >>31.25kb. Or I am missing something ?
> >
> >with mlan, doesn't one 'speak MIDI' to a device, but at a higher
> >bitrate - or is it me who is missing something here?
>
> the end-to-end connection presumably involves a "legacy" MIDI device
> (at least it will do for many years). even if you can move data onto,
> off and along the wire much faster with ieee1394, there's nowhere for
> it to go or come from any faster than 31.25kb ...
>
> certainly, once there are numerous mlan/firewire devices out there,
> the bitrate issue becomes less significant, but i suspect that most
> MIDI setups will involve 31.25kb hardware interfaces for some time to
> come.
>
Just to stop this endless thread, do you agree that it's wrong to
encourage to use ALSA rawmidi kernel API?
No reason exists and this will bring to the same problems we have now
for legacy OSS application.
I think that we need to learn from our past.
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