[wdmaudiodev] Re: Re : Re: USB Audio/WASAPI channel limits?
- From: Tim Roberts <timr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:50:52 -0800
robert.bielik wrote:
>
> Hmm... USB Audio 2 class is a standardized specification. I would've
> assumed that Microsoft generally would be keen on standards compliance?
>
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
There are a number of USB class specs that do not have generic
in-the-box drivers from Microsoft. There has to be a business case to
justify the considerable development and testing expense. Standards are
only interesting if they are used. If USB Audio 2 is a niche standard
that is only interesting to a tiny fraction of the market (and the
current evidence suggests that is the case), then it doesn't make sense
to develop a class driver. To four decimal places, Audio Class 1.0
satisfies 100% of the Windows users in the world.
As a point of comparison, remember that Visual C++ STILL does not
support the C99 ISO standard, and there are a lot more C99 developers
than there are USB Audio 2 devices.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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