Christoph Eckert schrieb: >To be honest, they shouldn't support ALSA, they should better >support the non existing common unix audio layer. > > But as its non-existing, its the best they can do ;) >>but u still need to struggle around with alsa >>config, etc. >> >> > >Yep. And normal users are not able to do so. > > > >>the problem is that it doesn't work out of the box >>like on WinD0w$. well - don't get me wrong, i actually >>like the fact that linux is highly configurable, and >>i personally have no problem to write my .asoundrc, >>but if linux should have success on the desktop, thats >>definitely a must-have. >> >> > >Yeah, that's my idea. I for mysels can deal with the current >status, but I have the common user in mind. > >And in fact, if we had a common audio layer, this doesn't >steal you the possibility to tweak every system aspect >manually. > > Yes. BTW: have a look here: http://www.portaudio.com/docs/proposals/status.html this should support jack, alsa, oss, so its definitely a good thing, and also non linux systems (sgi, mac, windows). I unfortunately do not have the time to look on the api specs and sample implementations, but i'm sure, if u create such an high portable api, you'll sacrifice some of teh native apis advanced features. -tommy > > Best regards > > > ce > > > >
