From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
Cc: Russ Garrett <rg@tcslon.com>,
root@chaos.analogic.com, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Audio skipping with alsa
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:27:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hhe3kbith.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063217788.2251.51.camel@clubneon.priv.hereintown.net>
At 10 Sep 2003 14:16:28 -0400,
Chris Meadors wrote:
>
> I'll agree that larger buffers are not the answer. I sometimes mess
> with live audio effects. That is recording some audio, processing it in
> some way, and then playing it back. If the buffer is too large, a
> noticeable delay would be introduced. Takashi and Jaroslav I'm pretty
> sure know the problem this causes with musicians, who need to hear what
> they played or sang in a very short period of time, or it messes with
> the brain.
to handle the data in a short period can be never guaranteed if the
process runs without the real-time priority.
the simple and only solution is to run such an application with
RT scheduling, IMO.
(the playback of xmms is a slightly different problem because it's
not designed (purposed) as a real-time process.)
--
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> SuSE Linux AG - www.suse.de
ALSA Developer ALSA Project - www.alsa-project.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-10 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-09 14:14 Audio skipping with alsa Russ Garrett
2003-09-10 13:23 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-09-10 13:38 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-09-10 13:45 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-09-10 14:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 15:28 ` Con Kolivas
2003-09-10 15:43 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-09-10 17:47 ` Russ Garrett
2003-09-10 18:16 ` Chris Meadors
2003-09-10 18:27 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
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