[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging

  • From: "Silver Blade" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:17:30 +0100

> >>> But, the short answer is, I think drivers pass interleaved data to
sound
> >>> cards.
> >>
> >> no, the short answer is that its hardware dependent, and in some
> >> cases, configurable at the hardware level.
> >
> > Well things must have changed then. Last time I explored the realms of
sound
> > card low-level programming, it was with a Sound Blaster compatible card,
and
> > they (used to) accept only interleaved data.
> >
> > I'm not sure what they do now, but as you say they probably are
> > configurable.
>
> Paul is saying that the Sound Blaster may have been interleaved, but there
> are hundreds of different sound I/O devices from many manufacturers; some
of
> them are interleaved; some of them are not; some of them are configurable.
> It depends on the specific hardware that is being used.

So I gathered.

I guess we should support both interleaved and non-interleaved then.

-SB


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