Re: gsoc2013 octave audio system

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 17 April 2013 16:52, Vytautas Jancauskas <address@hidden> wrote:
> PulseAudio is one of "devices" that PortAudio presents as available.
> You can set that device to any other and none of the code will have to
> be rewritten.

How does this work in general? How do you set devices at runtime
without user interaction?

> As far as abstraction this is as good as you are going to get. How
> is any library to guess which audio infrastructure to use?

Is it impossible for an audio library to query the operating system at
runtime or build time to decide which audio infrastructure to use?
Will no other library do this?

- Jordi G. H.