* plughw versus hw (fwd)
@ 2003-07-30 20:32 barat
2003-07-31 9:02 ` Måns Rullgård
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From: barat @ 2003-07-30 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alsa-devel
hi,
i read that plughw does some magic conversion for samplerate and stuff.
how does this magic work. whats the main differenc in the concept of hw
and plughw.
thanx and regards
joy
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* Re: plughw versus hw (fwd)
2003-07-30 20:32 plughw versus hw (fwd) barat
@ 2003-07-31 9:02 ` Måns Rullgård
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From: Måns Rullgård @ 2003-07-31 9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alsa-devel
barat@medien.uni-weimar.de writes:
> i read that plughw does some magic conversion for samplerate and stuff.
> how does this magic work. whats the main differenc in the concept of hw
> and plughw.
hw interfaces directly to the physical card. Thus you can only use
modes supported by the hardware. plughw will detect whether the
hardware can do what you are requesting, and automatically convert the
data to something that can be played, at the expense of CPU time.
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