Re: [linux-audio-dev] Channels and best practice

From: James McDermott <jamesmichaelmcdermott@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 13:58:46 EET

> What are your thoughts? What is best practice on multichannel audio, or
> is it always application-specific?

According to my experience and understanding:

-non-interleaved (multiple channels in separate arrays) is a bit
easier to code, but
-interleaved could give better performance (because the data you need
"now" is all close together in memory).
-libsndfile uses interleaved.
-plugins (DSSI, LADSPA) use separate arrays.

I'm not qualified to talk about best practice, so take with a pinch of salt...
Received on Tue Nov 15 16:15:05 2005

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