[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging
- From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 00:44:49 +0200
On Friday 23 May 2003 23.42, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > Also a question for Tim: For a given multichannel format, can you
> > explain what the advantage of allowing a plug to order the
> > channel buffers in any way it likes is? I'm not saying there
> > isn't any, just that it's not intuitively obvious to me what it
> > would be. So I'm asking.
>
> The buffers are logically ordered by their semantics. the LEFT
> stream means LEFT. I don't care what the physical position of the
> data wrt other data is. This also goves the user the opportunity
> to swap LEFT and RIGHT withouth ANY cleverness.
>
> The simplicity of the design enables DEEP flexibility. As an API,
> Flexibility is what we want.
100% agreed.
> We are implicitly defining the channel formats that GMPI
> understands by codifying hint names. When 111.6 standard emerges,
> we won't have hints for all the channel names. 111.6 capable
> plugins can still work, but they'll need help from the user.
> Whereas if we explicity group channels, the 111.6 standard won't be
> supported until GMPI supports it and then all the hosts support it.
But that's a *feature*, you know... Ever heard of Microsoft? ;-)
> As designers of a forward-looking and forward-thinking API, we
> REALLY need to consider things that feel a bit awkward but offer a
> TON of flexibility. Again, I'll explain this and argue it until
> someone shows me one case where it fails unsolvably. :)
I don't even see what's awkard about this, but anyway... :-)
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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