[maemo-developers] portaudio (again)

[From: David Huggins-Daines]

Chris Dobbs wrote:

> I realised early on that PA used /dev/dsp so I did "ln -s /dev/dsptask/pcm1 /dev/dsp"
> I have tried various others but to no avail, can anyone help I know PA supports OSS and ALSA which are both installed on the N800, although I think esd is the default driver.

I have never known OSS to work on the N800, but I could be wrong...

There is an ALSA driver which seems to be somewhat unreliable for
recording - at least, it doesn't work for me, but it could be my code
rather than the driver itself.  I believe (but this may have changed)
that it's a package in extras that needs to be installed.  This may have
improved lately, but I haven't checked.

Your mileage may vary.  I've only really had success with GStreamer for
recording audio on the Maemo platform.