Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio Example Suggestions

[Berndt Josef Wulf]

On Monday 13 February 2006 04:34, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> For what it's worth, one suggestion I'd make for the examples is to use
> "plughw:0,0" as the default audio sink device, rather than "hw:0,0"
> (assuming you're using ALSA).  It seems that some cheap soundcards (like
> the on-board one in my Athlon machine) don't support the output rates
> the examples generate; changing to plughw allows ALSA to resample on the
> fly and works around that problem.
>
> Using plughw would improve compatibility and I suspect reduce problem
> reports.

Do we finally save the system wide default values for the audio devices? Its a 
PITA of having to re-iterate the audio devices everytime when a program 
requires the audio source and sink. Remember, ALSA is not supported on 
platform other than Linux.

cheerio Berndt

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