Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote: 
> On Mon, 01.11.04 23:14, Alan Cox (alan lxorguk ukuu org uk) wrote:
> 
> > A lot of non-x86 boxes have very poor or no FP. Low power x86 boxes like
> > the VIA also lack the horsepower for FPU based resamplers. Really you
> > want stuff like 3Dnow/SSE floating point FFT routines, integer handlers
> > and the like. 
> > 
> > It would however be "no worse" than esd if you simply took esd's
> > 'resampler' for the integer option for now.
> 
> You don't know libsamplerate, do you? libsamplerate provides multiple
> resampling implementations. While all are fp, one does probably more
> or less in fp what esd does in integer. (I haven't looked at the
> resampling code of esound, I must admit, but it probably isn't much
> worse than libsamplerate's SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD.)
> 

Yes, but it does so in fp which rather defeats the whole point. 

> See http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/api_misc.html#Converters for more
> info.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> 
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