On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:05, Takashi wrote:
> At Wed, 30 May 2007 08:47:14 +0200,
>
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > Alan Horstmann wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 29 May 2007 17:55, Takashi wrote:
>
> > > > After a quick thought, another possible fix would be to let apps open
> > > > each direction separately. For that,
> > > >
> > > > - add some way to make the given PCM stream to non-fullduplex
> > > > (proc or module options?)
> > >
> > > Are you thinking that if an option were set, Alsa-OSS would create
> > > separate devices for capture and playback rather than a single duplex
> > > device?
> >
> > No; just a way to disable DSP_CAP_DUPLEX and/or SNDCTL_DSP_SETDUPLEX.
> > When these do not work, applications are forced to open the playback
> > and capture devices separately, e.g.:
> >
> > fd_playback = open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY);
> > fd_capture = open("/dev/dsp", O_RDONLY);
So are you saying that the same device can reliably be opened both O_RDONLY
and O_WRONLY -AT THE SAME TIME but with different numbers of channels? That
is a bit counter-intuitive given the ONLY part, but if true would probably
provide a workable solution.
> I thought of a similar hack but it seems that many apps don't check /
> set DUPLEX capability. So, this might not work on many apps.
>
> > > > - change portaudio to open each direction separately, O_RDONLY and
> > > > O_WRONLY at first, then use O_RDWR as fallback
> >
> > This would be the preferred way. After all, this is the only way that
> > is possible with the existing OSS API when you want to use different
> > sample formats, and it is recommended in all cases (see
> > <http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/full_duplex.html>).
But note that the 4front OSS creates lots of devices -see
http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/oss_devices.html
so they can be opened sparately always.
> Right. For example, in the case of audacity, the change would be like
> the following patch (untested).
Well I quickly hacked something similar to try, and did seem to be able to
open input_handle and output_handle separately, and have Audacity 'Duplex
recording' so that could be fine. I will do more testing and report back!
Alan
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