I have started playing around with the ALSA API, though there are a couple of things that puzzle me.

At the moment what I have is this

Code:
  fstream wavFileReader;
  char *data[ 8092 ];
  
  wavFileReader.open( "wavFile.wav", ios::binary );

  snd_pcm_writei( pcm_handle, data, frames );

  while( !wavFileReader.eof() )
  {
    wavFileReader >> setw( 8091 ) >> data;
    snd_pcm_writei( pcm_handle, data, frames );
  }
pcm_handle is a structure that is used for the alsa sound lib, and I doubt if it would be required to give the entire setup of it.

the snd_pcm_writei() function returns the number of frames that has actualy been written to the sound card. Though this is what I have no idea about.

What is a typical value for the number of frames to write to the sound card? ( eg SB Live )

in the ALSA code that I have been looking at, it defines the number of frames to be:
Code:
    int periodsize = 8192;
    int frames = periodsize >> 2; // C Style code
Though I have no idea what this actualy does.

Any help would be good.

The documentation that I have been reading from can be found at
http://www.suse.de/~mana/alsa090_howto.html

Later,