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0.0 History
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This plugin was originally written by Thomas Nyberg <thomas@codefactory.se> for
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ALSA 0.5.x. It was updated and changed quite a bit in September 2001 by Andy
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Wingo for use with ALSA 0.9.x.
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1.0 Introduction
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This plugin was designed for use with ALSA 0.9.x, using other versions most
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assuredly will not work.
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The plugin will probe which cards and pcm-devices that are availible, and then
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it tries to determine their capabilities. This will allow the use of multiple
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cards with multiple pcm-devices - at the same time! Since I only have one card
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on my system, as of yet, I haven't had the chance to try this out.
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2.0 How to use it
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Since we can have multiple soundcards, each having the same name - and also
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multiple pcm-devices on each card, a problem with naming occurs. When
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the alsa-plugins are initialized, a factory is created for each card and
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pcm-device on the system.
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On my desktop, I have the following:
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wingo@cebreiro:~/src/gstreamer$ gstreamer-inspect alsa
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INFO ( 339:-1) Initializing GStreamer Core Library
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INFO ( 339:-1) CPU features: (808009bf) MMX 3DNOW
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Plugin Details:
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Name: alsa
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Long Name: Alsa plugin library
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Filename: /usr/lib/gst/libalsa.so
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ES1370/1_sink: ES1370 DAC2/ADC
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ES1370/2_sink: ES1370 DAC1
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ES1370/1_src: ES1370 DAC2/ADC
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alsasink: default alsa sink
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alsasrc: default alsa src
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My particular card has 4 channel out and 2 channel in. As you can see, each of
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these devices are stereo. The alsasink and alsasrc elements correspond to the
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default alsa devices.
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3.0 License
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ALSA 0.9.x isn't very well documented, so I had to rely on a number of different
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sources for guidance. One of the main sources of inspiration was Paul Davis'
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audioengine (available in quasimodo's cvs tree,
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http://quasimodo.sourceforge.net/), from which I took a large amount of code.
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Since that project is licensed under the GPL, it was only right that I license
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the updated version of this plugin under the GPL as well. What, in my
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understanding, this means for the end user is that you cannot use the ALSA
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plugin with a non-GPL program. If in doubt, please refer to the COPYING file
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located in this directory.
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