From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:53:57 +0000 Message-ID: <20110316175357.GB15605@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <4D7FB076.30300@codeaurora.org> <20110316103814.GA8369@sirena.org.uk> <1300273162.9428.10.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <20110316115627.GC14125@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: pl bossart Cc: "Koul, Vinod" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , Patrick Lai , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:52:23PM -0500, pl bossart wrote: > I must be missing something here. Why would this media controller API > make things simpler? Based on what was presented at LPC, I don't > understand this last part. It'd make the tie up with algorithms part much easier as we could have an interface for transferring the compressed data alone and then externally describe how that's plumbed into any other DSP that's going on and the physical outputs - it'd help with treating the data transfer as a standalone problem.