Re: [Audacity-devel] Exporter Update

[Joshua H. <jo...@re...>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:13, Daniel James wrote:
> > Anything I placed in any of the other sections, I'd prefer if you
> > not only "adopt" it, but convince me that we really should put it
> > in 1.2.0.
> 
> What's the status of PortAudio native support for ALSA? Is that likely 
> to be in 1.2.0?

Just to clarify, Audacity is very close to having very good support for
PortAudio v19.  It did have very good support at one time, but it just
hasn't been maintained.  It would require small tweaks, nothing major.

The holdup is more on the PortAudio end (which is me, as the
pa_linux_alsa author).  pa_linux_alsa works pretty well; I think the
biggest holdup is getting it to be smart about period size and number of
periods configuration.  Pretty much every ALSA app out there leaves the
user to specify these, but I guess I just hope to do better.  Maybe a
good temporary measure would be to allow the user to specify these with
an environment variable.

I'm kind of busy these days, but this (and JACK support) is something
I'd really like to see.  Some weekend I need to just go on a coding
binge.  :)

Josh