Re: [foo-devel] varios

[martin r. <fo...@ru...>]

dear sirs,

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:53:27AM +0100, ar...@ma... wrote:
> Doesn't look very appealing this "other" elk-page. What happens with
> Sam? Is he still not responding?

sam just seems to busy...  nothing serious, i guess.  responded to me,
but still nothing about the garbage collector...

> Another question: what is your feeling about the alsa sound
> drivers. This should be the real standard for Linux now, isn't it?

yes, using the old oss driver is deprecated in the new (2.6) linux
kernel.  it's by far not that flexible and supports much less
soundcards.

> Martin, told me that libsndfile does not work with the alsa
> drivers. That could be an inconvenient, but probably there is some
> other solution. CCRMA uses exclusively alsa, and they probably have
> to deal with several soundfile formats.

yes, that's correct, but i think there is a misunderstanding:

libsndfile has nothing to do with playing soundfiles, so libsndfile
itself doesn't rely on any sound driver.  it's just sndfile-play
coming with libsndfile.  it's more meant as a programming example how
to use libsndfile.  the actual playing is done via oss in this
program, but nobody is prevented from writing a player using
libsndfile which uses the alsa-interface.  alsaplayer is such a
program.  if you have installed it on your system, simply replace
'sndfile-play' by 'alsaplayer -i text' or even 'alsaplayer -q -i text'
(quiet).  this enables alsaplayer using the text interface.  if you
are running x11, it's also possible to call just 'alsaplayer', which
will open a graphical interface...

regarding the MixSnd problems, it would be nice to have an example.
perhaps we could generate some sinewave-files and try to merge them to
see if that works?

> How were your exams, Martin? Went well I hope.

yes, until now, well.  there is still one outstanding for coming
tuesday...

all the best, greetings to paris!

martin