[Alsa-user] smartLink WinModem w/alsa driver

2008-12-15 Thread FrankK
Greetings List! My fresh install of openSuse 11.0 has a smartLink winModem driver problem. Yast installed smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-203.1.i596.rpm and configured my modem as an "alsa modem". When I look at the dependencies of the rpm, it uses alsa .so libs, so I think yast has it right. Why als

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:40:11 +0200 > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:17:11 +0200 >> Sergei Steshenko wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:28 -0800 (PST) >>> Bill Unruh wrote: >>> >>> What kind of resampling does ALS

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:17:11 +0200 Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:28 -0800 (PST) > Bill Unruh wrote: > > > > > > What kind of resampling does ALSA do these days-- linear interpolation ( > > which > > is fast and does not have any delay, but introduces loads and loads of

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:40:11 +0200 Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:17:11 +0200 > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:28 -0800 (PST) > > Bill Unruh wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What kind of resampling does ALSA do these days-- linear interpolation ( > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:28 -0800 (PST) Bill Unruh wrote: > > What kind of resampling does ALSA do these days-- linear interpolation ( which > is fast and does not have any delay, but introduces loads and loads of > distortion and noise) or what? You may choose. There is now sinc interpolato

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: >> For my case where I connect to the Benchmark DAC1 via USB (which supports >> 24bit 96khz), does my sound card have any influence in the process? >> > No. > > If the sound card does 24bit 96khz, and the original sound

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: > For my case where I connect to the Benchmark DAC1 via USB (which supports > 24bit 96khz), does my sound card have any influence in the process? > No. If the sound card does 24bit 96khz, and the original sound file is 24bit 96khz, ALSA will not touch/modify the samples

Re: [Alsa-user] MPD's ReplayGain causing 66% of CPU spent in `system'

2008-12-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I do not think MPD uses ALSA as such, it's a network thing, isn't it ? It does use ALSA: it's a music player (controlled via a TCP socket). It can also use OSS or Shout for audio output, but mine is configured to use ALSA. Stefan --

Re: [Alsa-user] MPD's ReplayGain causing 66% of CPU spent in `system'

2008-12-15 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:52:53 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I use a WL-700gE home router as jukebox, running `mpd'. > Until recently the systems worked fine, using around 20-30% of CPU to > play my Ogg files. But recently, it started to skip while playing those > same files. After some investiga

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: > > [...] > > The ASRC, as the name implies, is not syncronized to the clock of > > the incoming digital signal. Therefore, its performance is independant of > > the > > This makes no sense at all. If the incoming signal is a digit