[alsa-devel] Master vs. Front/Rear/LFE/... elements

[Eliot Blennerhassett]

Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:49:22AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
>> IMO, the best would be a total rewrite of the current mixer API, as I
>> mentioned some times.  Right now it's more complicated than needed,
>> but not powerful enough to handle exceptional cases.
> 
> Indeed - for example, something that allowed audio routing to be
> expressed in the mixing API would be a very big win for embedded systems
> too.
> 
>> I know designing a generic and fully-working API is pretty difficult,
>> though...
> 
> Certainly non-trivial :)

I just dumped my notes here on other systems that have some concept of
routing/connectivity/topology

http://bigblen.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/linux-audio-control-topology/

Comments welcome

Still very much a work in progress...

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Eliot