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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Subject: RE: periods? fragments?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:04:25 +0200 (CEST)
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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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