ALSA Compress Offload support

[Qais Yousef]

On 01/13/2015 10:04 AM, Qais Yousef wrote:
>
> Maybe I specified the wrong name. In tinycompress they open the 
> compressed device using open()[2]. I'm not familiar with alsalib and 
> how it should handle this.
>
> [1] http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=tinycompress.git;a=summary
> [2] 
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=tinycompress.git;a=blob;f=compress.c;h=15dfdb74137ed0d1c7d65d8318391ac75ae79ee4;hb=HEAD#l240
>

OK asking on alsa mailing list [1] what alsasink currently supports is 
not what I am asking for. So back to my original question, what is the 
best way to add support for alsa compress offload in gstreamer? I'm not 
sure which is better to extend the current alsasink or create a new 
(calsasink?) component. I think the latter is better to avoid making 
alsasink too complex.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/133034