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

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:41:41PM +0200, Leonard paniq Ritter wrote:
> LADSPA is not a sexy name. please consider using something more erotic
> this time.. acronyms are so 80s :)

its retro, it ALL going back to the eighties. 
> 
> i'm going to read the header file now.
> 
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:11 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > 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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> 

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