On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:24 -0600, pl bossart wrote: [...] > I can see cases where you have 1 compressed stream and 1 PCM, and you > mix the two in hardware, but I am having a really hard time finding a > use case where you would have multiple (more than 2) PCM streams at > different rates. Maybe automotive cases, where the infotainment unit > might send multiple streams to a head unit were the mixing/routing is > actually done? Did anyone request hardware mixing on the mailing list? This is something we often hear about from people with Creative SoundBlaster Live/Audigy cards and their ilk, which support hardware mixing. To some extent, the complaint is reasonable, since we're forcing resampling on CPU even though this can be off-loaded to the soundcard. Cheers, Arun
