From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 08:31:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B27316A41C for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:31:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C9543D46 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:31:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd21.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1Dsz7e-0000g1-02; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:31:10 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (GMvkP2ZdQeLy0KNFIFAYathbbKaPBecN1gkqsED8mUBNFxFH9X-8Ut@[84.165.210.187]) by fwd21.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Dsz7Q-20DQkS0; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:30:56 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6E8UtqF075928; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:30:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from 141.113.101.31 ([141.113.101.31]) by netchild.homeip.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:30:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20050714103055.cqsfhiy7wgscw00o@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:30:55 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Ariff Abdullah References: <20050707064603.6c295451.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> <20050712204404.GA3835@trimind.de> <20050713061347.61f719c8.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> <20050713142157.99y2jio3dw0sc404@netchild.homeip.net> <20050713221651.10c6ca19.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> In-Reply-To: <20050713221651.10c6ca19.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-ID: GMvkP2ZdQeLy0KNFIFAYathbbKaPBecN1gkqsED8mUBNFxFH9X-8Ut@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 263c260d-a787-4b7e-91cf-20fe456fc69b Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, mat@cnd.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Massive sound changes / fix (24/32bit pcm support, new sampling rate converter, various fixes) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:31:17 -0000 Ariff Abdullah wrote: > and perhaps incompatibilities. Talking about incompatibilities, > first, our mixer infrastructure need to be revamped. It's just too > old, too crude to handle modern soundcards. Pretty hard to tame it, > really, yet possible. I don't object to have our own mixer interface, but we really need to have compatibility-shims for OSS. And if the new OSS interface suits most of our needs, we should use it and talk with the OSS developers how to extend it for additional features so we can agree to a common API. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair". -- Howard Anderson, "Yankee Group"