Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752308AbWAFADw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:03:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752313AbWAFADv (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:03:51 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:24792 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752308AbWAFADb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:03:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity From: Lee Revell To: Hannu Savolainen Cc: Takashi Iwai , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML In-Reply-To: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> <1136504364.847.88.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:03:28 -0500 Message-Id: <1136505809.6035.3.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 24 On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:56 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > > > > - PCM with 3-bytes-packed 24bit formats > > > Applications have no reasons to use for this kind of stupid format so > > > OSS translates it to the usual 32 bit format on fly. In fact OSS API > > > does have support for this format. > > > > What about hardware that only understands this format? > There is no such hardware. Or is there? > Yep, the Roland SC-D70 and EDIROL UA-5 in "advanced mode", I guess it lets them cram more channels of 24 bit audio over a slow USB pipe. It's no fun... Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/