Re: [linux-audio-dev] streaming from disk to terminatorX added (via mmap)

[Benno Senoner <sbenno@gardena.net>]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Andy Lo A Foe wrote:

> 
> You might want to check out alsaplayer, http://www.alsa-project.org/~andy/
> It does 'direct streaming from disk' for just about any format without
> using mmap. It uses a ring buffer system and threading to cache data and
> there is code for very low latency modes using SCHED_FIFO.
> If you really want to emulate "finalscratch" just put the scratching mouse
> functionality of terminatorX in some sort of plugin for alsaplayer. It
> supports variable speed control (negative too, which is needed for
> 'scratching'). With a fast enough CDDA capable CDROM you can even
> 'scratch' your music CDs in realtime :-)
> 
>

I doubt it that a CDROM drive can keep up with a nervous scratcher.
:-)
The only solution is to keep in memory 100-200k samples before and past the
actual playing position, but I think reading backwards from a CDROM drive sucks
a lot.

regards,
Benno.