[wdmaudiodev] Vista Audio Architecture

  • From: Tim Roberts <timr@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:18:42 -0700

I am confused about the state of audio drivers in Vista.

I've been reading in this list and in newsgroups about how the audio
subsystem has been rearchitected in Vista, moving most audio processing
into user-mode.  And yet, the documents on APOs describe connecting to
kernel streaming drivers, just as in XP.  Will KS and AVStream audio
drivers continue to work in Vista just as they have in the past?

Let's say one has an echo cancellation driver, that needs to tap into
both input and output.  In XP, that can be done as a WDM filter driver. 
The document on sAPO says specifically that this is not possible with an
LFX or GFX filter (if I read it correctly).  How would one implement
such a thing in Vista?  Can it simply remain as a kernel filter driver?

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Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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