Mercurial > audlegacy-plugins
changeset 3171:cb93b500a364
alsa-ng: Add more notes on this.
| author | William Pitcock <nenolod@atheme.org> |
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| date | Fri, 15 May 2009 04:20:09 -0500 |
| parents | 5166d34025cc |
| children | 1b2350bdeaef |
| files | src/alsa-ng/TODO |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/alsa-ng/TODO Fri May 15 00:49:04 2009 -0500 +++ b/src/alsa-ng/TODO Fri May 15 04:20:09 2009 -0500 @@ -11,3 +11,17 @@ majorly, I want to be able to just choose a soundcard and have it set up the mixer the right way on it's own. This is 2009, and this should be possible. +Things that won't be reimplemented: + +- support for custom period sizes and buffer sizes. we want to use the ALSA defaults + since they provide the optimal values for each card. this means that specifying + period/buffer sizes is retarded. + +Notable differences between the old ALSA plugin and the new one: + +- tickless design: + The old ALSA plugin basically did a lot of polling. This does not, instead using + an event-driven tickless design using conditionals. + +- uses ALSA "safe" API subset: + Plugin should work correctly with all userspace plugins.