From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous ALSA - callback and latency questions
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540EE346.3050908@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <901056793.444760.1410259814514.open-xchange@upcmail.upc.nl>
Bram Bos wrote:
>>>>> I’m using ALSA for building a performance musical instrument, so I’m
>>>>> after
>>>>> low-latency audio output.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. I’m using asynchronous audio output (i.e. using a callback).
>>>>
>>>> Don't.
>>>
>>> That's an interesting insight. I reckoned using a callback was the most elegant
>>> solution since that's what I'm used to for DirectSound, iOS, OSX, WMME, ASIO etc.
>>
>> If you want to go in that direction, just use JACK.
>
> And the next best alternative would be blocked-mode/polling through ALSA, then?
Yes. (That's what Jack uses; with full duplex, you already need to handle
multiple devices.)
Regards,
Clemens
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-08 16:03 Asynchronous ALSA - callback and latency questions Bram Bos
2014-09-09 8:24 ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-09-09 8:44 ` Bram Bos
2014-09-09 8:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-09-09 10:50 ` Bram Bos
2014-09-09 11:23 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
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