Posted by: Administrator
on August 11, 2004 02:43 AM
ALSA's dmix plugin is a pretty severe omission from this article.
OK, I omitted dmix (and dsnoop) because I considered it as a plugin and as not strictly part of ALSA. You're right, should have at least mentionned it (but most howtos & docs I read weren't doing so either, except the ALSA one).
The fact that he hypes the very new Jack Server, but omits dmix, NAS, and MAS makes me think that he's just trying to promote Jack.
When it comes to NAS & Gstreamer, I explain my choice at the end of the second part (was supposed to be only one article). For the others, had to make choices for concision (the article was already much too big compared to what I was asked), and had to talk about the *obvious* ones likes aRTs, esd and JACK. My goal wasn't to promote any system, but I must admit that JACK was my personal favourite one. <A HREF="http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/indexframes.html" title="mediaappli...server.net">SAI's MAS</a mediaappli...server.net> is, as you mentionned, also an interesting project with very interesting features (low latency, Network Transparency, X11 integration, bandwidth measurement,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...) especially for conferencing, but less popular for the moment, and if on the little space I had, I had talked about less known sound systems and not about the ones everybody would await, my mailbox would have exploded now<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-P. It's difficult to write something that pleases everyone: I already received multiple mails of people accusing me of preferring one system (always a different one) or even one from a big company director saying I would have an agenda (!!) to take down its product.
So, just to say it once and for all, this article isn't supposed to be exhaustive at all, because it was meant to be an introduction and not a serie of articles, and I'm just a student interested in technology and certainly not here to do any kind of advertisement for one sound system (I'd like to get money from one of them, would be an interesting way of
paying my studies<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;), but I'm not on sale). If enough readers show interest in a serie of articles about this subject with more details about each solution, I'd
be glad to write it (if the editor is ok with that).
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Re:dmix plugin for ALSA allows concurrent access
Posted by: Administrator on August 11, 2004 02:43 AMALSA's dmix plugin is a pretty severe omission from this article.
OK, I omitted dmix (and dsnoop) because I considered it as a plugin and as not strictly part of ALSA. You're right, should have at least mentionned it (but most howtos & docs I read weren't doing so either, except the ALSA one).
The fact that he hypes the very new Jack Server, but omits dmix, NAS, and MAS makes me think that he's just trying to promote Jack.
When it comes to NAS & Gstreamer, I explain my choice at the end of the second part (was supposed to be only one article). For the others, had to make choices for concision (the article was already much too big compared to what I was asked), and had to talk about the *obvious* ones likes aRTs, esd and JACK. My goal wasn't to promote any system, but I must admit that JACK was my personal favourite one. <A HREF="http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/indexframes.html" title="mediaappli...server.net">SAI's MAS</a mediaappli...server.net> is, as you mentionned, also an interesting project with very interesting features (low latency, Network Transparency, X11 integration, bandwidth measurement,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...) especially for conferencing, but less popular for the moment, and if on the little space I had, I had talked about less known sound systems and not about the ones everybody would await, my mailbox would have exploded now<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-P. It's difficult to write something that pleases everyone: I already received multiple mails of people accusing me of preferring one system (always a different one) or even one from a big company director saying I would have an agenda (!!) to take down its product.
So, just to say it once and for all, this article isn't supposed to be exhaustive at all, because it was meant to be an introduction and not a serie of articles, and I'm just a student interested in technology and certainly not here to do any kind of advertisement for one sound system (I'd like to get money from one of them, would be an interesting way of
paying my studies<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;), but I'm not on sale). If enough readers show interest in a serie of articles about this subject with more details about each solution, I'd
be glad to write it (if the editor is ok with that).
Cheers,
Christian Vincenot
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