Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

[James Tomaschke <james@orcasystems.com>]

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Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> This is starting to remind me of two things:
>
> 1) The case where this guy did a review of two different audio
> processors, and labeled the DAC of one as inferior to the other. He
> posted audio files of the resulting output from one and the other.
> Except he posted the exact same link for both of them. People
> commented about how right he was, after allegedly listening to both
> files. They were the same file. I'm an audiophile, but I know when to
> quit.
>
> 2) A la Tim Newsham and Federico Benavento, less talk more code. I
> have a mixerfs implementation from several years ago that Kris and I
> worked on. I'll fix it up once I get AC'97 on my laptop to demonstrate
> what I mean mixer-wise. Tim said he was working on an interface that
> resembles what I've discussed publicly here.
I don't know if this has been fixed yet:
http://jtomaschke.blogspot.com/2009/02/plan9-ac97-driver-bug.html

AC97 covers a wide range of chipsets and you might experience the same
problems.

>
> This leads to:
>
> 3) James, if you don't like it, make your own, and kick our asses.
>
I have already changed the audio and other interfaces such as keyboard
input to provide more access to the hardware.  I have no desire to
develop these things other than getting the program to work.  So when
someone brings up the subject I'm more than happy to try and get them to
do the work for me.
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