Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Mon, 01.11.04 20:51, Sander Vesik (sander_traveling yahoo co uk) wrote:

> > I'd rather see Gnome use ARTS or someone take esd, rip out the broken
> > sound side stuff and use SDL_mixer to do the audio. That would give fast
> > floating point audio mixing thats very portable and reasonably correct
> > (it doesn't have a high quality mode which might be justified on modern
> > hardware - that is FFT and resynthesize) but its closer.
> > 
> 
> If we are going to something new, going along a path that will help 
> use us a non-fp alternative mixer at some point would be a benefit. 

It involes only a change in the core and not in the plugins of
polypaudio to make it to use a non-fp mixing routine. Currenlty,
polypaudio mixes in fp only simply due to the fact 
libresample is fp-only as well. But yes, eventually I will add a
shortcut for using an integer mixer in case only streams that do not
require resampling are involved. However, I consider this not a
high-priority issue.

Lennart

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