Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Gnome Wave Cleaner (audio restoration) project, request for information
From: Michael Droettboom (mdboom_AT_peabody.jhu.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 16:18:11 EET
Just a question, not necessarily a criticism: did you have a compelling
reason not to start with PortAudio and add an aRTS module? There seems to
be pretty decent documentation on doing this, and using PortAudio in a
client is a breeze.
www.portaudio.com
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:03:39AM -0800, weltyj_AT_yahoo.com wrote:
> > So far, I have implemented this on Linux RedHat 7.0, 7.1 using the OSS
> > sound drivers. It works flawlessly on those systems.
> >
> > I know however, that there are problems when a user has aRTS running,
> > etc. The main problem is that audio playback becomes choppy. I suspect
> > the playback problems may occur as well with ESD.
>
> Well, arts provides a C style API called libartsc, which ships with artsd.
> However, it seems that in the long run, it would be more useful if not every
> sound server would do so and every application would require a huge set of
> backend specific code. So Tim Janik and I started to work on libcsl
>
> http://www.arts-project.org/doc/csl-0.2.0.html
>
> which is an attempt to take that burden off the developer and to provide a
> portable sound input/output library. If you just need output, you might also
> look at libao or libsdl. However, I think that in the long run, having one
> library that covers all needs (libcsl) is the right thing to do for the linux
> community.
>
> Cu... Stefan
>
-- Michael Droettboom mdboom_AT_peabody.jhu.edu 410.625.7596Computer Music Research Peabody Conservatory of Music Johns Hopkins University
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