[linux-audio-dev] Fwd: CSL Motivation (fwd)

[Stephane Letz]

>
>Paul: (2) above may make you nervous, but look at it this way.  You have
>said in the past that every Mac OS X application is capable of
>interchanging audio data out of the box, thanks to CoreAudio.  The flip
>side of that coin is that CoreAudio was written to be usable by every
>application ever written for Mac OS X.  Yes, JACK is designed for
>serious audio work (as is CoreAudio) but that's no reason why it can't
>be appropriate for other situations also.
>

Just a comment on the MacOSX side. CoreAudio allows audio applications to
*share* audio drivers but does not yet provide audio inter-applications
exchange.  Apple is interested by the concept,
http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2003/Feb/03/isrewirenecessaryunder
os.txt
but it seems that nothing is ready yet.
I'am working on a Jack port for MacOSX.


Regard

Stephane Letz


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