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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f32bbeaf2a1de22d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-19 00:12:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.teledanmark.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: microphone and sound access in Ada Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:12:12 +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 X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1048061532 11871 129.241.83.78 (19 Mar 2003 08:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:12:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35497 Date: 2003-03-19T08:12:12+00:00 List-Id: Adrian Knoth wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: > >>> http://www.op.net/~pbd/alsa-audio.html (ALSA Devel-FAQ) >>> and especially at the last paragraph. >> I see. I also see that Debian has it in unstable. I think jackit is >> probably a better way to go. > > I checked the jackit-API and wondered: "That's all?" It seems to be > straight-forward to implement. Good! > >> have you checked if it does input as well as output? > > It does. The API is well documented. The main goal of jackit is > professionell interconnection of soundhardware and multiple apps. Ah finally! > It does not support volume-changes, but for that question it is possible > to use a native mixer-application from the OS. Drawback is that the > application won't have a volume-slider, but professionell Audio-solutions > like Cubase don't have it as well. They change the volume by lowering the > peak of their data without interfearing the mixer of the soundcard. Yes, but it still would be nice to be able to change the recording volume and listing volume from some apps. But I guess we can make bindings only to this part of ALSA and equivalent later. Preben