'Twas brillig, and Takashi Iwai at 17/10/10 09:55 did gyre and gimble: > At Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:59 +0200, > James Huk wrote: >> >> Hello everybody. >> >> This is my first "post" here, so please be "gentle". >> >> I have created PAVC plugin for ALSA, it is based on COPY plugin, and >> use SOFTVOL plugin for sound output. As far as I can tell from current >> tests - It works perfectly, and it doesn't break compatibility with >> any apps I use (and PulseAudio does). So I was wondering - is there >> any chance this plugin would be added to the next official ALSA >> release? >> >> Here is the patch that enables it on current alsa-lib-1.0.23 >> (hopefully this mailing list is a good place to "post" this): > > Thanks for the patch. I looked over this post until now. > > The idea is interesting, and I thought of a similar thing before PA > gets popularized, too. > > Though, this implementation is a bit too hackish, especially the part > using pipe & co. If we have a more simpler and cleaner way for this, > it's worth including to the standard plugin, I think. I was thinking much the same thing when I read over this patch a few weeks ago. While it could be interesting to include this in alsa, I struggled to think of a use case where PA would not be more appropriate. Is there a specific use case targeted with this patch or is it really just a "proof of concept" demonstration that alsa can do this sans PA? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
