Sound Device Collection Overview

The Sound Device collection provides a common interface for all audio functionality.

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.