[Openal-devel] Hardware-accelerated mixing in ALSA back-end?

[Jason Daly]

Chris Rankin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have both a SB Live! and an Audigy 2 ZS sound card, and I was wondering if there is any way of
> adding hardware-accelerated mixing to the ALSA back-end, please? I have found an alternative
> libopenal implementation on the Web, but the Linux distributions all prefer using the one from
> www.openal.org instead. Unfortunately, this one doesn't appear to be hardware-accelerated at all!
>   

I don't believe there are currently any plans for a hardware-accelerated 
back-end for the SI.  Creative has said that they'll be releasing a 
native Linux OpenAL implementation for the X-Fi cards sometime this 
year.  That's all I've heard about.

If you have the know-how to do it, you're welcome to add it yourself.  
Personally, I use the SI all the time, and I don't miss hardware 
accelerated mixing at all.

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