Re: list all available devices

[Timo Steuerwald <timo.steuerwald@gmx.de>]

Lee Revell wrote:

>Are you sure that's good enough?  It does not list the PCMs in a format
>useful to the application (like "default", hw:0", "surround51", "dmix"
>etc).  AFAICT "aplay -l" doesn't give an application enough information
>to populate a drop-down list.
>
>  
>
Hmmh, I haven't already taken a look at the code, but I thought this can 
be extended easily...

>This is a problem already for apps like "wengophone" - ALSA does not
>provide a sane API for enumerating all usable PCMs so it only lists
>"hw:x" PCMS and whatever is directly defined in .asoundrc (but NOT the
>PCMs defined under /usr/share/alsa/* - probably it parses .asoundrc
>directly, ugh)
>
>  
>
Uh, not very good :-/

Cheers,

Timo


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