Thanks for this contribution Tim. I understand the point of Exclusive Mode
and the supposed and real benefits of it from an audio DSP development
perspective.
The fact that my User can, unwittingly or intentionally, remove my
offloaded APO from the processing chain is what causes difficulties for me
and so, because I can't prevent the scenario from being created, I'm
looking at ways to know that it's happening with no luck yet... any
thoughts/suggestions on this topic?
Thanks again,
Culann
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 21:41, Tim Roberts <timr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Culann mac Cabe wrote:
That's it, out simply. I can mitigate the problem by modifying the DSP
tuning to not have such a dramatic level change between DSP On/Off but
that comes at a cost of reducing the quality of the DSP process
itself. Hence the request for info on a mechanism that our GUI App
could know whether the device is in Exclusive Mode - if we knew that
we could kick in a mitigating/correcting DSP...
The whole point of "exclusive mode" is that the application wants a
direct pipeline to the hardware, without any interference from kernel
modules or filters or APOs of any kind. That is the reason it exists.
Some application writers have decided, for whatever reason, that
exclusive mode is somehow "easier" than shared mode, but that's a
misunderstanding on their part.
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Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
