'Twas brillig, and Takashi Iwai at 17/10/10 09:55 did gyre and gimble:
At Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:59 +0200, James Huk wrote:
Hello everybody.
This is my first "post" here, so please be "gentle".
I have created PAVC plugin for ALSA, it is based on COPY plugin, and use SOFTVOL plugin for sound output. As far as I can tell from current tests - It works perfectly, and it doesn't break compatibility with any apps I use (and PulseAudio does). So I was wondering - is there any chance this plugin would be added to the next official ALSA release?
Here is the patch that enables it on current alsa-lib-1.0.23 (hopefully this mailing list is a good place to "post" this):
Thanks for the patch. I looked over this post until now.
The idea is interesting, and I thought of a similar thing before PA gets popularized, too.
Though, this implementation is a bit too hackish, especially the part using pipe & co. If we have a more simpler and cleaner way for this, it's worth including to the standard plugin, I think.
I was thinking much the same thing when I read over this patch a few weeks ago.
While it could be interesting to include this in alsa, I struggled to think of a use case where PA would not be more appropriate.
Is there a specific use case targeted with this patch or is it really just a "proof of concept" demonstration that alsa can do this sans PA?
Col