Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Lee Revell
2006-01-06T00:03:28Z

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:56 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> > > > - PCM with 3-bytes-packed 24bit formats
> > > Applications have no reasons to use for this kind of stupid format so
> > > OSS translates it to the usual 32 bit format on fly. In fact OSS API
> > > does have support for this format.
> >
> > What about hardware that only understands this format?
> There is no such hardware. Or is there?
>

Yep, the Roland SC-D70 and EDIROL UA-5 in "advanced mode", I guess it
lets them cram more channels of 24 bit audio over a slow USB pipe. It's
no fun...

Lee