From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7DD19FED-D73E-44A3-8710-4F70D9293F34@sun.com> References: <38fa4d234fa7ff8613123fe9a6921943@quanstro.net> <13426df10908112014y49c5a89dpd616ce4529c1efe1@mail.gmail.com> <7DD19FED-D73E-44A3-8710-4F70D9293F34@sun.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:36:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4491e8ea-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > This sounds like exactly the kind of thing one wants > from an audio driver for playback. For recording things > get slightly more complicated. What exactly do you mean? > Even for playback if you want to do passthrough (via > SPDIF or some such) things get slightly more complicated. > Of course, one can disregard passthrough as not > being an audio at all, but rather a datalink issue. What's so special about things like SPDIF? Why would it be not suitible for the kernel audio driver? For me it's clearly an audio and not a datalink issue, but perhaps I have only limited use cases.