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From: Guilherme Longo <grlongo.ireland@gmail.com>
Subject: Is snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_time_near the same as
 sampling period?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:24:32 -0300
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Hi mates.

I am trying to understand a piece of a code  I am  studing .
What does exactly the functions snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_time_near  
sets?

In my understand period time should be the time between 2 consecutive 
samples, but the following code does not appears to be calculating that.

buffer_time = 500000  // What I believe that means 0.5s as US is the 
unit used.

if (period_time == 0 && period_frames == 0) {
       if (buffer_time > 0)
             period_time = buffer_time / 4;
       else
           period_frames = buffer_frames / 4;
}

Is this period time the same as period describled in here:

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/sampling_period.html

Thanks!