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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: pl bossart <bossart.nospam@gmail.com>
Cc: "Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Patrick Lai <plai@codeaurora.org>,
	alsa-devel <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:08:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110316180828.GC15605@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikomFyMpGQMgysHdj8b3i-_jjhwW+7PVK0+HZ-p@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:00:09PM -0500, pl bossart wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Mark Brown

> > 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.

> Still not convinced. Why would you need to 'externally describe' how
> compressed data is linked to post-processing. It's all part of DSP
> firmware, why should anyone care how the decoder provides data to
> post-processes? You can control post-processes with ALSA controls as
> for regular PCM.

The problem is figuring out which controls are where and what can be
joined up with what.  This is a problem with regular PCM too but it gets
much worse when everything is virtual.  Media controller should provide
a route to allowing applications to figure out what's going on in the
hardware.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-16 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15 18:31 Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework Patrick Lai
2011-03-15 20:40 ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2011-03-15 20:52   ` [alsa-devel] " pl bossart
2011-03-15 23:28   ` Patrick Lai
2011-03-16  7:21     ` [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2011-03-16  7:23     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-03-16 22:08     ` Patrick Lai
2011-03-17  7:39       ` [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2011-03-16 10:38 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-16 10:59   ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-16 11:56     ` Mark Brown
2011-03-16 12:17       ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-16 17:52       ` pl bossart
2011-03-16 17:53         ` Mark Brown
2011-03-16 18:00           ` pl bossart
2011-03-16 18:08             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-17  2:21               ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-17  5:00                 ` Patrick Lai
2011-03-17 11:54                   ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 14:27                     ` pl bossart
2011-03-17 18:25                       ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 19:16                         ` [alsa-devel] " pl bossart
2011-03-17 20:16                           ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 21:19                             ` Patrick Lai
2011-03-17 21:25                               ` Mark Brown
2011-03-18 16:03                             ` pl bossart
2011-03-22 13:01                               ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17  5:32           ` Asus E35M1-M Pro and Realtek AL887-VD - no love from ALSA for Sourround Wojciech Myrda
2011-03-17 21:55             ` Paul Menzel
2011-03-20 10:13               ` Wojciech Myrda
2011-03-18  2:22     ` Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework Raymond Yau

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