[linux-audio-dev] API for Input / Output plugins

Hi all, the reason of this mail is searching for opinions about an API for input / output plugins. Besides I see around the LADSPA API for sound processing but nothing similar for input / output. From some months I'm playing around with audio I/O libraries: I met too much libraries but no one really complete satisfacting my needs( thinking to latency and other advanced issues having on djing programs as an example). Not talking about driver complete support: PortAudio does not support ALSA, libao does not support Win,MacOsX and so on... Playing with plugins about some program I had another problem: I played with Alsaplayer ( very nice and powerful program! ) trying to reuse its plugins. I found although, that using them means including ( with hardcode ) lot of the Alsaplayer code. I played with Xmms too: this time the work is easier and there are all sort of plugins but mostly are thinked for merely playback withouth latency control... ;-( However, what about writing an advanced API for I/O plugins, completely detached from other programs ( as Xmms ), potentially multiplatform, to suit the needs of the big part of audio programs? I mean, a plugin written for a certain API ( i.e. ALSA, OSS, Jack, OsX etc... ) will be usable for all other applications with all advantages of a plugin architecture and standard code... Input plugins are important too: I see lot of apps rewriting continuosly Ogg, Mp3 or Wav support in any kind of flavour, but not always reusable code. About writing it once for all? I wanna know: there are people interested in this? My discussion is out of any order, not clever, low level? There is disadvatages on this idea? Suggestions? If there is a reason: Plugin API For Input Output ( PAFAIO ) sounds well??? Hoping in some answers.... Cheers, --              J_Zar         Gianluca Romanin         ----------------       see you at OpenJay.Org