[alsa-devel] alsa-lib support for compress offload

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 1/19/15 11:23 AM, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 01/16/2015 04:50 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>> Since there is no allowed processing/reformatting/reshuffling of
>> compressed data, all the plugin system needs to be bypassed and you'd
>> be looking at an alsa-lib API that interfaces directly with the
>> ioctls, essentially replicating what tinycompress does. I agree it's
>> not great to have independent packages, the decision to maintain
>> tinycompress separately was driven by licensing concerns, not
>> technical ones.
>> -Pierre
>>
>
> I'm not sure how dual licensing work. Is it ok to base alsa-lib support
> for compress API on tinycompress then?

no idea, and what is the objective really? it's not clear what you are 
trying to achieve and what would be the merits of enhancing alsa-lib 
with compressed audio support?
-Pierre