From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: xiphmont@xiph.org
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, vorbis-dev@xiph.org,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] libao problem (Re: No dmix/dsnoop on Intel ICH4/5 by default?)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514F4B0C.8020309@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACrD=+_whofChWJU+hVR3opb_baHvTjqmLzWrbQAqu9r08GCPQ@mail.gmail.com>
xiphmont@xiph.org wrote:
>> The only thing I personally had an actual issue with is using "front" for
>> stereo rather than "default". I don't seem able to come up with a compelling
>> reason why it should be "front" myself, so one tweak could perhaps be to
>> only change the stereo device back to "default"?
>
> Because then you can't guarantee or even discover what the playback
> rate and bitdepth are. There's no way to ensure bit-exact playback in
> a plug device, where 'front' is usually a non-plug alias.
The SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_* flags are there for exactly this reason:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___p_c_m.html#ga64fa40b556374dabe40d4874242fee19
Regards,
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-24 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-16 19:26 No dmix/dsnoop on Intel ICH4/5 by default? Rene Herman
2013-01-16 20:52 ` Clemens Ladisch
2013-01-17 10:22 ` libao problem (Re: No dmix/dsnoop on Intel ICH4/5 by default?) Rene Herman
2013-01-17 12:12 ` Clemens Ladisch
2013-01-17 12:44 ` Rene Herman
2013-03-07 8:20 ` [Vorbis-dev] " xiphmont
2013-03-24 17:25 ` Rene Herman
2013-03-24 18:00 ` [alsa-devel] " xiphmont
2013-03-24 18:50 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2013-03-24 19:43 ` xiphmont
2013-03-24 20:01 ` [Vorbis-dev] " Rene Herman
2013-03-24 21:28 ` Alan Horstmann
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