Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Specs ?
From: Richard Guenther (rguenth_AT_tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 10:41:19 EEST
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
> >I cant figure out what the monitor stuff is doing from the
> >documentation.
>
> I tried to write it in a very generic way that wasn't rooted in
> audio. I wrote:
>
> * Precisely what this means is dependent on the client. A typical
> * result of it being called with TRUE as the second argument is
> * that data that would be available from an output port (with
> * JackPortIsPhysical set) is sent to a physical output connector
> * as well, so that it can be heard/seen/whatever.
> *
> * Clients that do not control physical interfaces
> * should never create ports with this bit set.
>
> So, for the ALSA client/driver, turning on "monitor" on a port means
> that it causes the data that other clients read from its port to also
> be sent to its output ports, causing the data to be audible at the
> same time.
Does this include ports from other clients? I.e. will the engine monitor
an arbitrary port through the driver? That would be useful for debugging.
Richard.
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