[gst-devel] Audio format identifiers and portability

[Steve Baker]

I agree, also we are soon going to want to define audio/raw formats which
have no definitions in sys/soundcard.h so it would be nice if we could
remove the dependency.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaheer at grid9.net [mailto:zaheer at grid9.net]
> Sent: dinsdag 13 maart 2001 11:26
> To: gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [gst-devel] Audio format identifiers and portability
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have noticed that in gst/meta/audioraw.h there is a:
> 
> #include <sys/soundcard.h>
> 
> This requires the existence of such a header file which may 
> not be true if
> you go to other *nix platforms and Win32 and others.  I 
> suggest therefore
> that we keep a registry of formats in the gst/meta/audioraw.h 
> file like
> AFMT_S16_LE and AFMT_MU_LAW etc. as #define's temporarily and 
> maybe later
> have a "nicer" way of keeping them.
> 
> I know I'm biased in that I'm not planning to use gstreamer for
> outputting to sound cards, but I think this is important for 
> many other
> people too, especially any would be "porters" out there.
>  
> I personally would also like to see GStreamer apps running on Solaris.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Zaheer Merali
> --
> PreViking - open source telephony middleware
> http://www.bellworldwide.net/previking/
> 
> 
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