[SDL] SDL 1.3 audio API proposal...

[Simon Roby]

On 8/4/06, Peter Mulholland <darkmatter at freeuk.com> wrote:
> I disagree here. Windows obviously supports hardware mixing if the
> hardware has it. MacOS X doesn't yet but should they decide to do so in
> future, no doubt they will have an AudioUnit to do it (also I would
> imagine the mixer AU is very fast). Games consoles pretty much all have
> mixing hardware. The only odd one out here is Linux - a criticism of
> ALSA I have had for many years.

Say what? ALSA does have hardware mixing, as long as the drivers and
hardware support it, of course. I know at least two drivers that
implement it: cs46xx and emu10k1. On supported hardware you get
multiple output streams that can be used independently.

Application support is another thing though. The only application I
know that actually makes use of ALSA hardware mixing is Stepmania.
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- SR