[alsa-devel] [RFC] AXD Audio Processing IP ALSA support - Questions

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:58:52AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Qais Yousef wrote:
> > 3- Can we get an example of how transcoding (back to disk) is supposed to be working?
> 
> ALSA PCM devices are assumed to run with their own clock, i.e., it is
> not directly possible for applications to control when a playback device
> reads data from the ring buffer, of when a capture device writes data to
> it.  The ALSA API is designed for real-time opertation; it would not be
> a good choice for batch conversions.
ALSA Compressed devices can be used here

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~Vinod