[gst-devel] alsa and plugin categories

[Jan Schmidt]

<quote who="Leif Johnson">

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:31, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > Hey Leif,
> > > 
> > > I like the reorganization, looks fine for me to commit.
> > 
> > Is there a reason why ladspa gets its own category?
> 
> Just that there are 179 LADSPA elements, and they'd start to crowd out
> the others if they were mixed in together (I'm thinking visually, in
> terms of the gst-editor element tree).

OK

> > The only reason I'm not using ALSA is because it is broken.
> 
> It's been working for me (in the 0.7 branch) since April or May, when
> Benjamin took it over like a hurricane. :) It Just Works on SBLive, but
> if your sound hardware is evil (I have a crusty Crystal laptop card) you
> might need to find an appropriate set of properties (especially
> period-size).

The default for period-size is 8192. Using 4096 or below works on my
soundcard. This is the i810 sound card on my laptop - crappy sound, but
there's a lot of them out there. 

I'll wait for your ALSA changes to hit CVS and take a look at whether the 
plugin could figure out my sound card automatically.

J.
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