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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Latency is the delay between giving the order to play a sound and the sound |
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> actually being played. It's usually around 30ms here with ALSA/dmix, and |
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> around 10ms with OSS/vmix. It's not funny trying to play something in a |
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> software synth with a keyboard when having a 30ms latency. |
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As I said, you're doing it wrong. No "normal" (average desktop, media |
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center, laptop, linux-phone) user needs 10ms of latency in audio. |
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That's overkill. Yours is a special case, and you need special |
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software. Try Jack. |
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And it doesn't need to be in kernel space, by the way. OSS4 is dying |
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because of that. |
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For the rest of us mere mortals, PulseAudio Rocks; it has *variable* |
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latencies by design, so the audio processing doesn't eat up all the |
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battery life. Again, read the comparison between PulseAudio and Jack: |
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http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Instituto de Matemáticas |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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