Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:59:37 +0200 (EET) | From | Hannu Savolainen <> | Subject | Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity |
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > > We have not received any single bug report that is caused > > by the concept of kernel mixing. > > Kernel mixing is not rocket science. All you need to do is picking a > > sample from the output buffers of each of the applications, sum them > > together (with some volume scaling) and feed the result to the > > physical > > device. > > Hey, interesting, this is exactly what dmix does in userspace. And we > have not seen any bug reports caused by the concept of userspace mixing > (just implementation bugs like any piece of software). Having dmix working in user space doesn't prove that kernel level mixing is evil. This was the original topic.
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