Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:40:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Steve Roome <steve@snuggly.demon.co.uk> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003202215330.2790-100000@snuggly.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000320153429.A1373@ipass.net>
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Randall Hopper wrote: > |and voxware is an acceptable loss. once the isa shims are gone, voxware > |will not compile without being newbusified which is a task of great > |magnitude. at this time, the point is moot. > > Is it? You own a 400 room apartment building. You've built a > brand-spankin new 200 room apartment building with a pool. Cool. Now you > say to the residents, "Everybody over to the new building with the pool. > We're gonna blow the other one up!" Do you really think the residents in > the other 200 rooms are going to sleep on the the street while you expand? > There are other apartments.... Not to mention that the new pool doesn't have a water filter, and in some cases the water just pours upwards out of it... [ Just one more vote for voxware to stay - even though I can't use it with my card =( ] Anyway as long as the average desktop user can play CD-audio, record from the microphone or line input and perhaps use fxtv, play quake and the odd midi then pcm is fine and voxware ought to go ? Reasonable Questions : With the newpcm code will it be easy to get linux voxware apps supported through linux-emulation, and will it be feasible to port old (and new) voxware apps to newpcm ? Also, would it be possible to provide a compatibility library so that voxware specific calls could be made through it and turned into newpcm calls ? (or is that a pipedream/impossibility ?) Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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