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From: Eliot Blennerhassett <linux@audioscience.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <mznyfn@0pointer.de>
Subject: Re: Master vs. Front/Rear/LFE/... elements
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:36:02 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A03D2D2.1040800@audioscience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090507100915.GB27897@sirena.org.uk>

Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:49:22AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
>> IMO, the best would be a total rewrite of the current mixer API, as I
>> mentioned some times.  Right now it's more complicated than needed,
>> but not powerful enough to handle exceptional cases.
> 
> Indeed - for example, something that allowed audio routing to be
> expressed in the mixing API would be a very big win for embedded systems
> too.
> 
>> I know designing a generic and fully-working API is pretty difficult,
>> though...
> 
> Certainly non-trivial :)

I just dumped my notes here on other systems that have some concept of
routing/connectivity/topology

http://bigblen.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/linux-audio-control-topology/

Comments welcome

Still very much a work in progress...

--
Eliot

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-06 17:58 Master vs. Front/Rear/LFE/... elements Lennart Poettering
2009-05-07  8:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-05-07 10:09   ` Mark Brown
2009-05-07 10:30     ` Takashi Iwai
2009-05-07 10:53       ` Mark Brown
2009-05-07 12:56       ` Lennart Poettering
2009-05-07 13:10         ` Mark Brown
2009-05-07 13:12         ` Pavel Hofman
2009-05-08  6:36     ` Eliot Blennerhassett [this message]
2009-05-07 12:46   ` Lennart Poettering
2009-05-07 13:18     ` Takashi Iwai
2009-05-09 22:11       ` Lennart Poettering
2009-05-11  9:26         ` Takashi Iwai
2009-05-12  7:47   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-05-12  8:02     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2009-05-12  9:21     ` Mark Brown
2009-05-12 13:15     ` Lennart Poettering

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