[linux-audio-dev] Update to LADSPA 2 strawman

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Apr 25 14:11:34 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:29:31AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 at 11:28 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > I'd hate to see a future where there are plugins for translating between
> > different kinds of boring PCM data, that would suck, but this could allow
> 
> Hmm, well couldn't we have one libsndfile plugin that can convert
> between whatever common boring PCM formats you like? I haven't looked
> closely at the ladspa2 stuff yet - is it possible to change these port
> types at runtime, if so the libsndfile plugin would only need an input
> and an output...

Their constant.

But that's what I was trying to avoid, the current sitatuion is that all
LADSPA plugins speak only IEEE floats, and that's really nice.

You can end up burning a lot of memory bandwidth and cpu just doing
pointless PCM conversions.

- Steve



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