Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 18:33:57 EEST

At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:42:34 -0700,
Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> looks like dmix solves the problem but it seems like it's not that
> easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I have soundcard with hw
> support for multiple channels).

This should have been improved. If you still have difficulties with
the latest ALSA release, please report a bug.

> SOUNBLASTER LIVE MIXER:
>
> total mystery, no master control etc.

Agreed. I don't like it, too. Volunteers are appreciated :)

> PORTABILITY:
>
> it's cool that generally considered better solution (alsa versus oss)
> seems to be winning but that brings us to linux being windows:-) I mean
> alsa is linux specific while oss is fairly portable solution.

Why don't you use cross-platform libraries if portability matters?
It's much better than sticking with OSS API.

Takashi
Received on Mon Jun 20 20:15:27 2005

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