[linux-audio-user] New Sound Subsystem Needed For Qt4/KDE4

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 05:30 +1000, Mark Constable wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 04:46, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > My general question, to those who know far more than me, is
> > > just what would be the ideal sound subsystem for KDE in 2006
> > > seeing there is a clean slate and an opportunity to get it
> > > right from the get go ?
> > 
> > Portaudio.
> 
> Would you care to elaborate on why Portaudio would be a good
> system for both professional audio and casual desktop users ?
> 
> What does it offer that ALSA and jack do not, or in conjunction
> with ?
> 

It's a portable layer that provides a callback based API on top of ALSA,
JACK, OSS, Windows (ASIO and MME I think are supported), etc.  If
KDE/Qt4 want to be cross platform (and I think they do) it's the only
reasonable choice IMHO.

http://www.portaudio.com/

Lee 

> --markc
>