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Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ???

by Love Bucket

Paul Davis wrote: > You should not be writing apps with OSS. > If you want portability use PortAudio. LOL! PortAudio uses... OSS! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] Linux.Conf.Au Audio Mini-Conf

by Conrad Parker

Hi, just a reminder that the Linux Audio mini-conf at Linux.Conf.Au is happening on Monday Jan 12 2004 in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia. Details are at: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ if you can be there and would like to do a presentation, please submit an abstract soon, places are filling very fast and we'd like to get the programme sorted out this month :) other than that, it should be a lot of fun, as will the main conference on the following Wed-Sat: http://lca2004.linux.org.au/programme.cgi cheers, Conrad.

22 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Linux VERSUS OSS ???

by Taybin Rutkin

Defiant until the very end. Almost admirable. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/ Taybin -----Original Message----- From: Love Bucket <riotofjoy(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Oct 14, 2003 11:41 AM To: linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Linux VERSUS OSS ??? Paul Davis wrote: > OSS is dead. You should not be writing apps with OSS. Well, at least OSS has a programmer's guide (PDF file): http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf Where is the equivalent for ALSA? Until it exists, we will continue using OSS! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

22 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ???

by Taybin Rutkin

That's not the point. It's a better way to program audio. And it doesn't only use OSS. http://www.portaudio.com/status.html Taybin -----Original Message----- From: Love Bucket <riotofjoy(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Oct 14, 2003 11:44 AM To: linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ??? Paul Davis wrote: > You should not be writing apps with OSS. > If you want portability use PortAudio. LOL! PortAudio uses... OSS! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] MIDI part II

by hexe_2003＠directbox.com

Hello again! I though about my MIDI problem again and I concluded that the only mistake can be my alsa version. Nothing else could hang up the system, right ? Well, then I'd like to know howto use MIDI via the OSS-layer, because alsa-0.9.7 ( current version) seems to need some "magic" to get started and I am MUCH impatient right now ;)))) Any tips, links or something interesting where I could start with ? Howto say OSS that there is a MIDI-keyboard ? ANY applications uses MIDI-IN signals via OSS ? greez, Sascha Retzki __________________________________________________ Verpassen Sie keine eBay-Auktion und bieten Sie bequem und schnell über das Telefon mit http://www.telefonbieten.de Ihre eMails auf dem Handy lesen - ohne Zeitverlust - 24h/Tag eMail, FAX, SMS, VoiceMail mit http://www.directbox.com

22 years, 2 months

Re: Re: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Oss & threading -- is it possible

by hexe_2003＠directbox.com

-------- directBOX Reply --------------- From: david(a)olofson.net To : linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu Date: 10.10.2003 19:17:01 On Friday 10 October 2003 17.41, hexe_2003(a)directbox.com wrote: [...] > But well, If I synthize ( ? spelling) two signals and want to send > them at the same time to the device, my first idea'd be: > 1.) Open /dev/dsp, maybe O_NONBLOCK | O_WRONLY > 2.) thread > 3.) two threads calculate the both signals > 4.) sync them > 5.) two threads write their signals to /dev/dsp > 6.) threads close > > certainly some of this. I mean mp3blaster, for example, have > several pids while playing audio streams, and it is basicly > OSS-programming and not alsa. > Am I so wrong ? ;) Yep! ;-) Synths, trackers, games and other "polyphonic things" at some point mix everything into a single stream that is sent to the audio device. In general, all audio processing is done in a single thread, but in some cases, it can be pretty hard to get the processing deterministic enough that it can run in the audio thread without causing drop-outs. This is especially troublesome if you need low latency, as in games and other interactive applications. This is probably why mp3blaster is using multiple threads; one for each mp3 stream (decoding into raw audio data) and one for mixing and output. There is most probably substantial buffering between the decoding threads and the mixer thread, as this would allow solid playback with less buffering (ie less laggy mixing controls) between the mixer and the audio device. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate ..- Audiality -----------------------------------------------. | Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. | | MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,... | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se --- -------------- quiet interesting ;) Could you give me a short idea howto mix two signals/stream/oscilators/whatever ?? If it is not pthread, what is it ? Sascha Retzki __________________________________________________ Verpassen Sie keine eBay-Auktion und bieten Sie bequem und schnell über das Telefon mit http://www.telefonbieten.de Ihre eMails auf dem Handy lesen - ohne Zeitverlust - 24h/Tag eMail, FAX, SMS, VoiceMail mit http://www.directbox.com

22 years, 2 months

Re: Re: [linux-audio-dev] which API for best quality output

by hexe_2003＠directbox.com

-------- directBOX Reply --------------- From: S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk To : linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu Date: 13.10.2003 09:28:51 On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:30:52 +0200, hexe_2003(a)directbox.com wrote: > But this wasn't your question ;) . > jack does NOTHING with quality itsself, because jack is a user-space daemon other > apps connect to and send data to, which is then outputted via the currently used audio-driver. > And this is alsa ;) Thats not /quite/ true, JACK will dither the output (if asked to) which will improve the audio quality, and if the output of your program is going to be used by another then JACKs float data will help. Essentially though, it makes little difference. - Steve ----------- Woow, thats interesting! Well, then jack might be the best way to code your OGG-player ;) Sascha Retzki __________________________________________________ Verpassen Sie keine eBay-Auktion und bieten Sie bequem und schnell über das Telefon mit http://www.telefonbieten.de Ihre eMails auf dem Handy lesen - ohne Zeitverlust - 24h/Tag eMail, FAX, SMS, VoiceMail mit http://www.directbox.com

22 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-dev] which API for best quality output

by hexe_2003＠directbox.com

-------- directBOX Reply --------------- From: Vincent.Torri(a)math.u-bordeaux.fr To : linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu Date: 12.10.2003 12:30:38 Hello, I am a newbie in the linux audio world and I have some stupid questions: I want to wrote an ogg player with great quality playback. I've already look at some other linux players and I've search this mailing list to find some answers. It seems that two APIs are interesting: ALSA and Jack. But i have not find some comparisons between these (and others) APIs concerning the output quality (regardless the sound card). Can someone give me some advice(s) about what API I should use (comments, links, etc...) so that I could start working on it? I would like to mention that I am not concerning about portability (only linux platform) or easy programming, and I just want the best quality output for this player. I hope this is not the most stupid question of this mailing list :) thank you best regards V.T. ------------ Well, ( like I understood it ) the quality of both are equal. If yes, you just have to know: 1.) jack ( http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ ) is easier to code, and the USER decide which "options" are used, not your programme. 2.) alsa ( http://www.alsa-project.org/ ) is goes "deeper" into the hardware space, your programme can decide which "options" are used and its sometimes harder to code. But this wasn't your question ;) . jack does NOTHING with quality itsself, because jack is a user-space daemon other apps connect to and send data to, which is then outputted via the currently used audio-driver. And this is alsa ;) ( Or I think so - MY jack version ( Debian unstable ) does NOT have other possibilities, my jack can only use alsa. Maybe this changed in newer versions! ) Hoped I helped Sascha Retzki __________________________________________________ Verpassen Sie keine eBay-Auktion und bieten Sie bequem und schnell über das Telefon mit http://www.telefonbieten.de Ihre eMails auf dem Handy lesen - ohne Zeitverlust - 24h/Tag eMail, FAX, SMS, VoiceMail mit http://www.directbox.com

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] Waveform audio API

by J_Zar

I'm searching for an audio API to parse a .wav file and show its waveform. Someone knows something similar? If not, someone could tell me how to do it by myself? I mean if I open the file .wav and get one buffer at time, what I should do to know its waveform? Thank you, J_Zar Romanin Gianluca

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] which API for best quality output

by TORRI Vincent

Hello, I am a newbie in the linux audio world and I have some stupid questions: I want to wrote an ogg player with great quality playback. I've already look at some other linux players and I've search this mailing list to find some answers. It seems that two APIs are interesting: ALSA and Jack. But i have not find some comparisons between these (and others) APIs concerning the output quality (regardless the sound card). Can someone give me some advice(s) about what API I should use (comments, links, etc...) so that I could start working on it? I would like to mention that I am not concerning about portability (only linux platform) or easy programming, and I just want the best quality output for this player. I hope this is not the most stupid question of this mailing list :) thank you best regards V.T.

22 years, 2 months

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