Re: microphone and sound access in Ada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> 
> Well, libao is a generic audio-output-library. We might want to use it
> or simply cat to /dev/audio :) 

I think we want it to use /dev/dsp.

> This is a later issue. Sure encoding is important, but playback might be
> in first release, because it's easier.

Agree.

> 
> Nice. I guess we can start right here. It is linked against libogg, so
> 
> It might even be fun to write a binding to the ALSA-API, best case would
> be a native kernel-binding. Lutz? On the other hand, a wrapper around
> the C-library would work as well.

Yes, however the big problem is the /dev/dsp sharing. I mean two
programs have to fight for /dev/dsp unless one can use esd or similar.
So, I guess the libao might be better if it also works for input. Have
to check it though.

Preben