Re: microphone and sound access in Ada

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

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> 
> Concerning the input-stuff I'd suggest not to stick to ALSA directly
> but use jackit instead. It's a low-latency-framework on top of ALSA
> which is able to share ressources between applications and guarantee
> a low overhead in processing which is necessary for realtime-sound-IO.
>
> It's like the ASIO-drivers for Synthesizers/Samplers/Recording-software
> under Windows.
> 
> I didn't do deep investigations on jackit, I only felt attracted by a
> brief overview located on their website. If it provides a mixer-API
> for changing volumes than it would suffice. I won't suggest using jackit
> if we'll also need to interface to ALSA directly only for volume-change :)

The only problem is that you also have arts and esd servers. One cannot
know which the user prefers (depending on other programs she uses).

> On the other hand: if there is a libao(ut), perhaps there is also a
> libai(n)?

Haven't found one, but I'll ask around.

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