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Linux Audio Development

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-all-out dept.

JulesVD writes "There is an article from Linux Journal about the latest plans for Linux audio functionality from the first developer's conference in Germany. Developers from more than a dozen countries attended this successful conference, representing organizations such as SuSE, Linux Audio Systems, Stanford University, IRCAM and Centro Tempo Reale. Topic discussions included in-depth presentations of the rapidly evolving Linux sound system, a look at the details of programming for professional audio standards and a survey of recent applications and audio-centric Linux distributions." Mmm...interesting reading (blantant plug for cool program), but I think the most important question is will it make Scrubby happy?

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  1. Re:Drivers? by Adnans · · Score: 4, Informative

    Contrast with the monolithic kernel that linux has. Creative would need to participate and coordinate with linus et al from start to finish.

    Erh no! Most, if not all drivers in ALSA were written without any interaction from the kernel folks. ALSA is now integrated in the 2.5.x kernel, but that doesn't mean driver developers will have to deal with Linus et al. They just deal with Jaroslav, the ALSA maintainer. All mainstream cards are already supported by ALSA. If a company doesn't want to provide docs it can always choose to write and distribute their driver on their own.

    In short, the monolithic kernel is an albatross around linux' neck when it comes to wanting hardware support from the manufacturers.

    Nonsense.

    -adnans

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    "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." --Linus Torvalds
  2. Re:A pro audio platform would be cool... by fruey · · Score: 4, Informative
    It's called Ardour, look for it at Sourceforge.

    -Simon

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    Conversion Rate Optimisation French / English consultant
  3. Re:Drivers? by Adnans · · Score: 4, Informative

    And ALSA is the way every card will work from now on? Or will it change to something else with kernel 2.6?

    The ALSA API in kernel 2.5.x will be the same one in kernel 2.6.

    Vendors like standards and specifications. They dont like researchers and academics and expiriments.

    Vendors look at the bottom line. If there's enough incentive they will write against any API (*cough* Windows *cough* :-).

    -adnans

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    "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." --Linus Torvalds
  4. Re:Sound Support by paulbd · · Score: 4, Informative

    LSA's biggest drawback is the project policy that software mixing should be done in userspace (presumably by a separate project)

    This just is not true. ALSA now has the dmix plugin that handles software mixing in user space all by itself. Its very, very efficient and has no impact on latency (though it can't offer JACK-style sample-synchronous execution). dmix makes regular software mixing "servers" irrelevant, and JACK fills the remaining needs.

  5. Creative Open Sources their drivers by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only do they create drivers for their chips (SBLive! and Audigy series, OpenAL), they release the code as Open Source. The driver sin the Linux kernel came from Creative, not some 3rd party. Another reason to support Creative (as if having the best stuff wasn't enough of a reason)

    http://opensource.creative.com