Re: [linux-audio-dev] Juce now has ALSA support!

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 19:26:00 EET

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:51 +0000, Julian Storer wrote:
> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>
> > Julian Storer wrote:
> >
> >> Am I right in assuming that by default you mean the "plughw:"
> >> devices? On my machine the plughw: device glitched constantly, but
> >> the hw: devices worked really well. There was also some other reason
> >> I chose that.. can't remember offhand what it was though.
> >
> > "default" means just that. use the name "default" instead of
> > plughw:.... or hw:0,0
> > If the device glitched when using "plughw:" then it is a bug in ALSA
> > or your application.
> > How is you application deciding on sample rate?
>
> > There is no sensible reason to ever use the "hw:0,0" device. Always
> > use the "plug:front" and friends.
> > If an application only works with "hw:0,0" it has been written wrongly.
> >
> Ok, at the risk of "spreading the myth" that the ALSA documentation is
> bad... is this stuff actually explained anywhere?? It took me a day of
> googling just to find out what the two numbers after "hw" meant! I never
> saw anything mention "default" or "plug:front", etc.
>
> Not sure if it'd be appropriate anyway, though, as my API exposes a list
> of drivers and lets the user choose which one to use, and the sample
> rate, rather than just using the default driver.

Yes, see the links to the ALSA documentation I posted in my last
message. You also could have searched the mailing list archives.

Lee
Received on Wed Mar 1 20:15:06 2006

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