Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALSA vs OSS/free
From: Jussi Laako (jussi.laako_AT_kolumbus.fi)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 15:54:02 EET
Paul Davis wrote:
>
> So what do you think should happen when someone tries to run
> a 16 bit application on hardware that only supports 24-of-32bit samples?
> Does every application have to do the conversion now? Or might there
> be a library involved?
_If_ there is format conversion in API then it should be in kernel.
Otherwise application should be responsible of the format conversion (like
in ASIO). How the application does the conversion doesn't matter, it
probably would be in some common library.
- Jussi Laako
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