[linux-audio-dev] please help: enumerating library requirements

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

paniq at paniq.org wrote:

> On Saturday 23 July 2005 00:29, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > then libsndfile does all of the above except 1) and 2) and possibly
> > 5). What exactly do you mean by "realtime streaming".
> 
> if 2) is missing that wouldnt hurt. i dont like mp3 anyway.
> 
> realtime streaming means that it should be possible to stream audio in very 
> small chunks of data e.g. 64 samples per frame.

Que? That sounds like a function of the file format not the
API. With libsndfile you can read a single frame (1 sample for
every channel) or more per read/write.

Erik
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