[alsa-devel] Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:00:01PM -0700, Patrick Lai wrote:
> On 3/16/2011 7:21 PM, Koul, Vinod wrote:

> >Wouldn't a virtual sound card solve this? I was thinking of representing
> >all DSP elements in a virtual card.

> I think it would work to certain extend but what if DSP can
> instantiate elements at run-time, how can we deal with this use case
> under current ALSA framework?

Yes, exactly - handing runtime changes is a big issue, as is
discoverability.