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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Justin Bradford wrote:

> I'm curious about plans for supporting these new developments in sound
> hardware. I'm currently working with a prominent game company considering
> porting to Linux. They are beginning to use new hardware developments like
> 3D audio, and had questions about support on Linux.
> I looked through alsa-devel archives, but did not find anything about
> this. Has anyone considered how to extend the API to handle such things?

At this time ALSA doesn't contains any enhanced things than serious access
to sound hardware. You are probably speaking about some 3D library which
can mix some voices and place them to 3D space. It can be eventually
hardware accelerated. All things are still in my TODO list in my head.

If you want help us, it will be nice. We can eventually help you with
hardware access (if possible). If you are only consumer, please, be
patient and wait until someone will work on this feature.

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
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