Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-audio: one component to rule them all

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 03/09/2011 07:53 PM, Josh Blum wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have created a new top level component called gr-audio. The goal of
> gr-audio is to combine all supported audio architectures under a single
> source and sink block.
>
> Gnuradio has 6 different top level components, each for a different
> audio architecture. If you used audio in python, this was transparent,
> as the python file was test-importing each possible architecture. But if
> you used audio in c++, you would have to hard-code a specific audio
> architecture into your code.
>
> gr-audio presents one interface to the user in both c++ and python. At
> build-time, all architectures available to the compiler are built into
> the library. At runtime, an available audio architecture is selected.
> This selection is based on default priority, or if present, a
> configuration file setting.
>
> The build system will continue to configure and build the old top-level
> components; so this will not break C++ that was coded for a specific
> audio component. Anyone using audio block in python will be
> automatically calling into the new component.
>
> Try it out!
> http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/log/?h=wip/gr-audio
>
> I was able to test 4 of the 6 architectures. Testers for the osx and
> windows audio support would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Josh
I'd like to be the first to start the tin-foil-hat brigade and posit 
that there exists more than one
  Josh Blum.   It's the only explanation for the apparently-inhuman 
level of productivity we've
  come to associate with the object known as Josh Blum.

Off to put my tinfoil hat on :-)


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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org