annotate libdha/README @ 8607:d6f40a06867b

Changes includes: - Improved runtime control system - 3 New filter panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate - The compressor/limiter and the noise gate are not yet finished - The panning filter does combined mixing and channel routing and can be used to down-mix from stereo to mono (for example) - Improvements to volume and channel - volume now has a very good soft clipping using sin() - channel can handle generic routing of audio data - Conversion of all filters to handle floating point data - Cleanup of message printing - Fix for the sig 11 bug reported by Denes

lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library
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This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different
OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent.

The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace
video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving).

For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported
as working' list (these platforms are used daily):
 Linux/x86
 FreeBSD/x86
 NetBSD/x86
 Linux/PPC

There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that.
With root privileges libdha will finely run, but there are some others ways
to use it as a normal user:
1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root priviliges)
2, use svgalib kernel helper
3, use dhahelper (not yet finished)

The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project)
sources.

Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi.
Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi.
Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av.
(for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)