On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:25, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: [dmix...] > > 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. 99% of the users is a random guess. I'm talking about any user here, not technical user specifically. The idea is that dmix is only there when needed. If your card doesn't support mixing, well, you don't expect anything else, do you? You can't ask for the impossible. If you card does, then turn it off. It's not that hard. (And yes, this should of course be auto-detected, we're working on that.) > If so, *please* include a note how to do it in Release Notes for FC4. I'm sure the fedora people will do that, obviously, but I (for the GStreamer side of the thing) prefer to do the right thing automagically. I'm not sure that'll be finished by FC4. Ronald -- Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
