Re: [Audacity-devel] Please, please, please Compliation instructions for Audacit with RtAudio.

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> Hello Audacity Developers,
>>
>> given the poor performance of portaudio with ALSA, please can I have
>> detailed instructions on how to compile Audacity with RtAudio.
>
> I very much doubt you will get a better perfomance with this
> proof-of-concept patch for using RtAudio that Dominic did almost a
> year ago or so.

In theory, you just run:

   ./configure --with-rtaudio
   make

But Alexandre is right: it was a proof-of-concept, and what we  
learned was:

* RtAudio is somewhat cleaner code than PortAudio, and has a slightly  
easier to use interface.

* Both RtAudio and PortAudio have lots of bugs.  It's definitely not  
the case that RtAudio is superior

* PortAudio has more developers working on it and supports more  
APIs.  So in spite of our difficulties with it, we decided that  
continuing to try to improve PortAudio is the best bet.

The RtAudio code may or may not work.  If you do get it to work I'd  
be curious...

- Dominic


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