Re: smix plugin available?

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

tomasz motylewski wrote:

>Please stop the complication of "available/delay" etc. Just the raw pointer.
>Each application knows where its application pointer is, so it can easily
>calculate delay/available and decide for itself whether there was an overrun or
>not.
>
>  
>
I use the delay() function.
I help write a multi media application that needs to sync audio to video.
So the question I ask alsa-lib is "If I write() now, how long will it be 
before those samples come out of the speakers?"
So, I very much need delay(), but I also use available so that I can 
program alsa when to exit the snd_pcm_wait() poll. I.E. Only exit the 
snd_pcm_wait when there are enough free space in the buffer for me to 
bother with a new write() call.

Cheers
James




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