From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: Non-continous channel map? Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:43:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4458A587.2010403@cendio.se> References: <44505C23.30109@cendio.se> <20060503120653.GA11243@turing.informatik.uni-halle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.cendio.se (mail.cendio.se [193.12.253.69]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 9AFE5185 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:43:53 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <20060503120653.GA11243@turing.informatik.uni-halle.de> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Clemens Ladisch Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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? -- Pierre Ossman Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642