Singaravelan Nallasellan wrote: > Does alsa core in the kernel support interleaving and deinterleaving? No, but the alsa-lib plugins can do this. > if the driver receives a deinterleaved stream and wants to interleave > for the sound card, should the driver perform the conversion? No, the driver should just set the bit that indicates that the hardware supports interleaved data; the data will then be automatically converted by alsa-lib. HTH Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel