On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:04:32PM +0100, Tilman Schweitzer wrote:
> I've read somewhere (probably in this mailing list) that the iPAQ
> soundhardware or driver is only capable of stereo. I don't know if this
> is a hardware or software/driver issue. I guess one speaker can only
> play mono or two stereo channels mixed to one mono channel. But the iPAQ
> has got a headphone plug which is surely stereo.
Yes, the headphone jack is stereo, but it seems odd that it does not support
mono at all. My main concern is if this is a driver issue or a hardware
limitation. I read in the archives that the audio driver still needs work.
If it is the driver, then we can probably expect a fix sometime in the
future. If its the hardware, then I still think the appropriate place
for the conversion from stereo to mono is in the driver code. Am I wrong
here? Should the application be responsible for conversion from stereo
to mono? what about 16-bit to 8-bit?
I only ask because it affects how I write code from here on out. If these
things will be fixed in the driver, then a quick hack will get me up and
running for now. However, if the driver stays as is, I might craft a more
elegant solution into my code.
-- Brian W. Delaney <brian.delaney@ece.gatech.edu> Graduate Research Assistant School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyReceived on Thu Mar 15 09:25:16 2001
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