Hi Ryan,
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 03:10, Ryan Gammon wrote:Ideally IMHO dmix / asym would:
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- Open the sound device using sensible maximum capabilities of the device in terms of sampling rate and # of channels, etc. The guys who write our resamplers generally prefer to have helix doing any sample rate conversion where possible:
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/audio-dev/2004-March/000243.html
Would fixed-samplerate do (e.g. fixed to 48kHz)? 99% of the users won't notice the difference if you're using a reasonably good resampler. On my computer (don't know if this is generally true), dmix operates on a fixed samplerate, regardless of playback.
Please, no! This sounds really bad to me (pun intended ;-) I own a card that can do hardware mixing and really don't like the idea of "being punished" for that. Especially by something like upsampling almost every sound I play from 44.1 to 48kHz. And yes, I will notice (is it really 99% of the users who won't? where does this number come from?) -- decent amplifier, cables and loudspeakers do just that: you start noticing.
The reason I'm really worried here is that I recall Colin Walters saying that dmix will be on for everybody in FC4:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-January/msg00614.html
Question: will there be a SIMPLE way (a script or HOWTO/FAQ would do) to turn dmix off for those whose soundcard can do hardware mixing so they can use their hardware the way it was intended to?
If so, *please* include a note how to do it in Release Notes for FC4.
This would make me happy enough to keep quiet even with dmix set on as default :-)
Regards, Dariusz
