INF: Support for DSP Access in Microsoft Multimedia Windows

ID Number: Q71149

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WINDOWS

Summary:

Microsoft does not provide an application programming interface (API)

to access digital signal processing (DSP) hardware in the current

version of the Multimedia Extensions to Microsoft Windows. An API of

this type should provide device independence, which is very difficult,

given the diversity of DSP hardware configurations on the market

today.

However, it is possible to access DSP functions through a higher-level

API provided by the Multimedia Extensions. To provide this

functionality through an audio driver customized to the particular DSP

board, the Microsoft Multimedia Device Development Kit (MDDK) is

required. The audio driver API is written to provide device

independence.

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