Re: proper suspend / resume for PCM streams

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:33 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Okay, the error code carries the state information, but the point is 
> that the application should do necessary things in this stage like:
> 
> 1) try recovery from resume and continue (standard players)
> 2) stop the stream and tell to the user that he/she is stupid to do
> such things for live performance (for example JACK will do it ;-))
> 
> The point is that the application must decide what to do with this
> state.
> 

I think 2) is broken anyway.  JACK should keep going like any other app.
suspend/resume should just look like an xrun.

I would expect to be able to suspend/resume while using ASIO apps on
Windows.  What if the neighbors complain, so you have to move band
practice to another room quickly?

Lee



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