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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Interleaving and Deinterleaving support
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:33:30 +0200
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To: Singaravelan Nallasellan <singaravelann@hotmail.com>
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Singaravelan Nallasellan wrote:
> Does alsa core in the kernel support interleaving and deinterleaving?

No, but the alsa-lib plugins can do this.

> if the driver receives a deinterleaved stream and wants to interleave
> for the sound card, should the driver perform the conversion?

No, the driver should just set the bit that indicates that the hardware
supports interleaved data; the data will then be automatically
converted by alsa-lib.


HTH
Clemens