Audio resampler for Pandaboard

The Pandaboard is capable of running MANY old Risc OS games natively or using Aemulor. However, since the board is not capable of lower sample rates, games sounding at 22Khz will sound accelerated with a high pitch audio.

Would it be fixable with a resampler (like the dmix ALSA plugin) that could take care of these low sample rates and outputs proper resampled 44KHz audio?

Yes, it should be possible to write a resampler. If it was implemented as a new audio HAL device that wraps the existing device then it would be completely transparent to the rest of the sound system. You could also add support for all the VIDC sample rates (most Acorn games will be designed for 20833Hz, not 22050Hz). Alternatively it might make sense to implement it directly in SoundDMA.

So, would it be interesting to you too, Jeffrey? Are you going to give it a go? :D
It would be incredible, and would make the Pandaboard the most compatible Rpi new hardware! I don’t know if the Beagleboard has the same problem with sample rates (I asked at the Pandaland support list wich I am a member of, but never got a response).

Let’s say I want to stimulate devs into implementing this resampler: would it be correct to open a bounty for it? Or is that against the idea behind this “wish list”?