For those interested in why we created this, there's some extra background about our motivation here: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2012-April/0

For those interested in why we created this, there's some extra background about our motivation here: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2012-April/013813.html http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2012-April/013... Specifically, there's issues with FFMPEG, libmad, and GStreamer, and there was no good alternative that did what we wanted. So we wrote one!