Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] which API for best quality output
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 10:19:42 EEST
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:30:52 +0200, hexe_2003_AT_directbox.com wrote:
> But this wasn't your question ;) .
> jack does NOTHING with quality itsself, because jack is a user-space daemon other
> apps connect to and send data to, which is then outputted via the currently used audio-driver.
> And this is alsa ;)
Thats not /quite/ true, JACK will dither the output (if asked to) which
will improve the audio quality, and if the output of your program is going
to be used by another then JACKs float data will help.
Essentially though, it makes little difference.
- Steve
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