[LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue Jun 23 10:33:52 UTC 2009


On 06/22/2009 04:20 PM, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Paul Davis<paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Finally, as Chris said -
>> many of us are writing apps that target multiple platforms
>>      
>
> Well, my comment (from the point of view of applications rather than
> library development) was not so much about portability as simple
> convenience.  Regardless of which method is ultimately used to
> establish proper audio scheduling, it would be nice to be able to
> handle it through the same audio API as I am already using.  PortAudio
> and JACK APIs both contain some support for this, PulseAudio is the
> odd one out for me.
>
>    

As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with 
this debate,  I just noticed that pulseaudio *is* being used in the Palm Pre

http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html

While Jack and Portaudio are not.




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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
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