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From: Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Non-continous channel map?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:43:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4458A587.2010403@cendio.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060503120653.GA11243@turing.informatik.uni-halle.de>

Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Pierre Ossman wrote:
>> ALSA uses a rather strict default channel map, just a simple list.
> 
> Does it?  AFAIK ALSA devices just have a specific number of channels and
> leave the interpretation to the application.
> 
> The default channel order is just a convention.
> 

A convention that isn't followed is just as bad, if not worse, than no 
convention at all.

So what you're saying is that any application that wants to output more 
than one channel must have the user inform it of how channels are mapped?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27  5:52 Non-continous channel map? Pierre Ossman
2006-05-03 12:06 ` Clemens Ladisch
2006-05-03 12:43   ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2006-05-03 12:52     ` Takashi Iwai
2006-05-03 12:56 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-05-03 14:00   ` Pierre Ossman

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