Re: gsoc2013 octave audio system

[Vytautas Jancauskas]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:08 AM, pantxo diribarne
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> 2013/4/17 Vytautas Jancauskas <address@hidden>
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>> The other potential candidate (RTAudio) uses a very similar system. I
>> don't know of any other serious candidates.
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>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Vytautas Jancauskas <address@hidden>
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>> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
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>> >> On 17 April 2013 17:10, Vytautas Jancauskas <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>> Picking an audio system to use can be left to octave user for example.
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>> >> This is precisely the current situation and what should be avoided if
>> >> at all possible. Is it possible?
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>> >> - Jordi G. H.
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>> > No, maybe on mac it would work. But not on linux. I'm not sure about
>> > windows, haven't used them in 10 years or so.
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>> --
>> "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
>> which way I ought to go from here?"
>> "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
>> "I don't care much where--" said Alice.
>> "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
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> You'll find informations about supported host apis here. Let me cite a
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> "Sometimes it's useful to know which Host APIs you're dealing with, but it
> is easy to use PortAudio without ever interacting directly with the Host API
> abstraction".
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> Pantxo

It supports more apis than listed there. Also nothing there is in
contradiction with anything I said. The fact is you still have to pick
the api somehow. And the way it is usually done is sorting the apis in
order of preference and going through that list until the first one
that is present on that system.