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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Non-Interleaved access method?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:34:06 +0200
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To: Prasant J <pj0585@gmail.com>
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Prasant J wrote:
> When the application set the access method to non-interleaved, that
> means that the ALSA application will deliver the non-interleaved
> buffers to alsa subsystem & the alsa subsystem will interleave the
> data before sending out the data to the hardware.

Yes.

> Or non-interleaved means that the data will be sent out in
> non-interleaved manner itself?

Only if the hardware supports it.  (Very few chips do.)


Regards,
Clemens