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Re: Guidelines? (And a quick note about the website)



At 06:18 27/03/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> // There is no 3D support yet but it will be implemented with seperate
>> // interface functions.
>
>I hope whoever designs the 3d sound interface stops by the alsa mailing
>list and asks them what there plans are. They are working on a new mixer
>interface which will support a larger number of channels. Also hardware 3d
>encoded sound was going to be handled through special pcm interfaces, I
>believe. But regardless, alsa is the place where hardware 3d sound will be 
>supported for Linux, so it seems like a good idea to look at what they're
>doing.

 I was going to do some 3d sound stuff, along with 2d (surround) sound.
Driver level support for > 2 speaker channels will be excellent!
Thanks for the info, I've subscribed to the alsa developers list.