Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:37:24 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:03 +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > I can't remember if it was about OSS, ALSA or anything else but I > believe the conclusion was that sound mixing does NOT belong in the > kernel and SHOULD be done in userspace.
Well, sound mixing really belongs in hardware, but that seems to be a lost cause - vendors are way too cheap these days.
I can't believe they managed to hoodwink Windows gamers into accepting a new generation of sound devices that make the CPU do the work the hardware used to do...
Lee
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