From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,f32bbeaf2a1de22d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-18 09:13:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: microphone and sound access in Ada Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:13:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0303180318.7f4f013e@posting.google.com> <3e77253a@193.71.169.73> <3e7731c4@193.71.169.73> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1048007634 16813 129.241.83.78 (18 Mar 2003 17:13:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:13:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35467 Date: 2003-03-18T17:13:54+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- �There are three things you can do to a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.� - Justine, by Lawrence Durrell