Re: [Jack-Devel] Jack for Windows

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DateWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:59:39 +0100
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No time for that, sorry.

Stéphane 

Le 23 janv. 2013 à 13:13, Nouvelle Collection a écrit :

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Who is willing to code with me, a "virtual soundcard driver" (that will add a playback device in the list of Control Panel's playback devices), whose job is just to route the audio to JACK ?
> 
> We really need this for JACK for Windows : to be able to play all softwares into JACK.
> 
> Who wants to do it together ? ;)
> 
> See you! jebb
> 
> 2013/1/23 Stéphane Letz <[hidden]>
> 
> Le 22 janv. 2013 à 22:29, Paul Davis a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:21 PM, John Emmas <[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 22 Jan 2013, at 14:38, Paul Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> sad that JACK still uses portaudio as the backend, too - but nobody has stepped up to improve that situation either
>>> 
>> 
>> Just out of interest, what's wrong with Portaudio?
>> 
>> nothing in particular, its just a silly to base an audio API on another audio API with quite similar properties. if we used portaudio on linux + osx, then the argument might be stronger, but on those platforms we have dedicated code designed to interact with the native audio API on each. it is only on windows where we fall back on portaudio, for no reason other than lack of human resources to do dedicated backends for WDM, DirectSound, etc.
> 
> Well not sure PortAudio is so bad.. compared to a more dedicated version, which would possibly make sense on ASIO.
> 
> Stéphane
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