Re: [RFC] SAA713x setting audio capture frequency (ALSA)

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Em Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:36:25 +0200
Oldrich Jedlicka <oldium.pro@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:


> > So, maybe the right thing to do is to report just 32 kHz.
> 
> Exactly. This is what I'm thinking about too. The typical ALSA usage 
> (according to [1]) is:
> 
> 1. open the device
> 2. set parameters of the device
> 3. repeat until not done: read from the device, write to the device
> 4. close the device
> 
> There is nothing in between ALSA and the program, so the frequency change 
> isn't and cannot be propagated from the driver (for this to work there has to 
> be somebody doing the frequency resampling).
> 
> So to have the ability to switch capture sources (the basic ALSA 
> functionality), it is needed to support the same set of frequencies for all 
> the capture sources - 32kHz.
> 
> If we can agree on this, then I have one part of questions closed :-)
> 
> [1] http://www.equalarea.com/paul/alsa-audio.html

Yes, I agree. 

The patch changing this should add a proper description and a source-code
comment explaining why supporting 48kHz is not a good idea.



Cheers,
Mauro
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