[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Unresolved issues (Week 43)

[From: Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 10/30/06, Tommi Komulainen <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>>       *
>> http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-October/005742.html
>>         microphone recording quality
>>         3rd mention
>>
>>         GStreamer 0.8 recording sampling rate is limited to 8kHz? Can it
>>         be increased?
>>
>
> This was answered on the Week 41 list.
>
> I'll cut-and-paste the response here too:
> <quote>Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> to Tommi, maemo-develope.
> 1:27 pm
> Hi,
> Due to some constraints on the DSP side, this can't be changed right
> now. So for the dsppcmsrc and also the alsasrc on the device the
> sampling rate for recording s is limited to 8 kHz. This is not a limit
> of GStreamer 0.8 or 0.10.
> </quote>
>
> As I was one of the interested parties in that conversation, thanks
> for the reply, Stefan .
> I hope this means that it can be fixed with a firmware update rather
> than a hardware update. If this is the case, I also hope that it will
> be increased in future N770 OS releases.
I don't know all the details, but the message from the DSP developers
was that this won't be changed with the current hardware. Lets just hope
that for future hardware its been not planned this short-sighted in this
case.

Stefan