From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Maintaining sound card at a specific frequency Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:48:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1105938846.41eb499ec3527@www3.webhosting.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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: Giuliano Pochini Cc: Patrick Shirkey , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mark Knecht List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:50:36 +0100 (CET), Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > On 17-Jan-2005 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > >> I guess I'm wondering if there isn't some .asoundrc magic that could > >> be done in my Linux account on this machine that would tell all > >> applications (other than Jack for now) to use some virtual device that > >> handles all frequencies. If that virtual device was the default and > >> the resampling (for Mozilla/games/whatever) was done in software and > >> the sound cards frequency was never changed then I think things would > >> work much better. > >> > > > > I think you can use default as the device name in .asoundrc and it > > will be used as the default device for all apps. > > IMHO we should think on a good solution for this problem. Some > cards have many channels/voices but the sample rate is common > for all of them. Currently the only clean way to manage it is > a control that locks the sample rate at a given frequency, but > it isn't a nice solution because it requires explicit user > intervention. In the echoaudio driver I implemented a kludge > that automatically locks the sample frequency in order to avoid > unwanted rate changes. You can add a control to lock the sample rate (e.g. ICE1712). Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt