- ADC
- Analog Digital Converter.
This converts an analog audio signal into a digital stream of samples.
- ALSA
- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
- capture group
- A mixer group that contains up to one volume, one mute, and one input
selection element.
- CD
- Compact disk.
- codec
- Compression-Decompression module or Coder-Decoder.
- DAC
- Digital Analog Converter.
This converts a digital stream of samples into an analog signal.
- element
- See mixer element.
- group
- See mixer group.
- MIC
- Microphone.
- mixer element
- A component of an audio mixer, with a single, discrete function.
- mixer group
- A collection or group of elements and associated control capabilities.
- PCI
- Peripheral Component Interconnect (personal computer bus).
- PCM
- Pulse Code Modulation.
A technique for converting analog signals to a digital representation.
- playback group
- A mixer group that contains up to one volume element and one mute element.
- QSA
- QNX Sound Architecture.
- SRC
- Sample Rate Conversion.
- subchannel
- The collection of resources that a single connection to a client uses
within a PCM device (playback or capture).