-------- 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