Sound Device Collection Overview

Purpose

The Sound Device collection represents a framework for hardware accelerated access to audio functionality on the Symbian platform.

Architectural relationship

The Sound Device collection interacts with audio plug-ins and audio processing hardware.

Description

The Sound Device collection includes a client API for audio and a plug-in interface, where plug-ins correspond to a particular accelerated function, such as MP3 decoding.

Components

The Sound Device collection comprises the following components:

• DevSound API - the common API for all audio functionality.

• Advanced Audio Adaptation Framework (A3F) - an alternative implementation of DevSound.

• DevSound Plug-in Support - provides support for loading plug-in implementations.

• Reference DevSound Plug-ins - provides a DevSound reference implementation.

Using Sound Device

The Sound Device collection offers the following functionality:

• Playing and recording audio data.

• Loading audio plug-ins.

• Implementing a DevSound.

See also

A3F DevSound

Advanced Audio Adaptation Framework Overview