RE: [xine-user] need mono -> stereo fallback

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

What exactly are the latency issues ?
The alsa 0.9.x drivers will convert mono to stereo for you in the alsa lib.
It should not add any latency.

Cheers
James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xin...@li...
> [mailto:xin...@li...]On Behalf Of Owen Williams
> Sent: 09 March 2002 08:01
> To: xin...@li...
> Subject: [xine-user] need mono -> stereo fallback
> 
> 
> the soundcard on my laptop, an i810, interestingly doesn't support mono
> mode, only stereo.  Thus, when xine tries to play a mono file, it fails
> to initialize the sound.  I can use the alsa drivers, but they have
> latency issues.  From what I've read online, Alan Cox and company seem
> to think it's the responsibility of the user space to deal with this
> issue.  Other programs (plaympeg) deal with this, as I can hear the
> sound on mono files.  Therefore, can the developers add a simple
> fallback whereby a mono stream is converted to stereo by simply doubling
> the stream?
> 
> thank you,
> owen williams
> 
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