Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conversion | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 16:58:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > that none of the sound drivers does sample rate conversion although > > some sound chips are locked at 48kHz only. > > True, but a number of audio tools will break, because they don=B4t supp=
So fix the tools
> if you limit the number of available palettes per driver. Plus, you wil= > l get > severe fragmentation of which program works with which driver. Which is > unacceptable, in my opinion (and certainly NOT the idea behind a common= > API!)
Fix the tools.
> routines, while (nearly) nothing has been said about other (USB) webcam > drivers which have conversion routines.
I have those in my firing line too. It has always been the policy that format conversions go in user space. The kernel is an arbitrator of resources it is not a shit bucket for solving other peoples incompetence.
Alan
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