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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: David Stuart <dave@sipquest.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: periods? fragments?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:04:25 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20030519100425.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC85556.20008@sipquest.com>


On 19-May-2003 David Stuart wrote:
> Greetings! Fledgeling alsa developer here,
>
> After reading a bunch of documentation, it's unclear to me exactly what
> a period/fragment is used for. Could anyone expand on it a bit to fill
> me in?

You need an audio buffer to send/receive data from the audio
chip. The buffer is made of two or more periods.


Bye.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-19  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-19  3:53 periods? fragments? David Stuart
2003-05-19  4:12 ` Paul Davis
2003-05-19  8:06   ` Abramo Bagnara
2003-05-19  8:04 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2003-05-19  8:12   ` Jaroslav Kysela

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