Changeset 63972 in vbox

Timestamp:

Sep 23, 2016 12:40:34 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Docs.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Devices/Audio/AudioMixer.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Devices/Audio/AudioMixer.cpp

@@ -8 +8 @@
  * the actual device emulation, providing mechanisms for audio sources (input) and
  * audio sinks (output).
+ *
+ * Think of this mixer as kind of a high(er) level interface for the audio connector
+ * interface, abstracting common tasks such as creating and managing various audio
+ * sources and sinks. This mixer class is purely optional and can be left out when
+ * implementing a new device emulation, using only the audi connector interface
+ * instead. For example, the SB16 emulation does not use this mixer and does all its
+ * stream management on its own.
  *
  * As audio driver instances are handled as LUNs on the device level, this