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Question: Briefly compare pros/cons of waveout, directaudio, ASIO, kernel streaming, etc.?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on November 7 2009, 12:59pm
Reply on November 8 2009, 9:42am:
    The practical pros and cons are that (on non-cheapo hardware) ASIO typically has the most well developed drivers, most readily configurable access to those, is the easiest to implement from a programmers perspective. WDM KS and WASAPI can provide similar performance to ASIO, though aren't as easy to work with.

    DirectSound and WaveOut(MME) are pretty old, and relatively straightforward to support, though their architectures make it difficult to use them with really low latencies. This isn't really specific to their APIs, but more just a factor of how they are implemented everywhere.
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