[linux-audio-dev] ALSA features.

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 01:55 +0100, Dan Mills wrote:
> On Nice features, How about a helper function in the library to
> convert given 
> number of blocks of samples as say floats into the correct buffer
> format to 
> pass to the soundcard? It would cut lot a lot of (paraphrasing): 
> 
> if (snd_format = INTERLEAVED)
> .
> .
> .
> else if (snd_format == NON_INTERLEAVED)
> .
> .
> .
> else if (....) 

The ALSA plug layer already handles the case where the app can only play
interleaved and the hardware can only do noninterleaved.

I suspect the above is so common because people just copy the example
programs that come with alsa-lib.

Lee