Re: [Alsa-devel] CVS commit [0.99.11] ALSA playback latency patch

["Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>]

Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:36:00 +0100
> Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 17 Nov 2004 23:09:24 -0600
> > "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I should have made it clear that this is a JACK update, not ALSA.  :-)
> > 
> > Frankly i must say, that i do not quite understand what this patch changes.
> > 
> > from jackd 0.99:
> > 
> >         -p, --period    Frames per period (default: 1024)
> >         -n, --nperiods  Number of periods in hardware buffer (default: 2)
> > 
> > --nperiods never set the buffer size. This was always done by --period. Care
> > to elaborate? I have the feeling i must be blindstruck. Also i think the
> > 0.99 behaviour is perfectly allright.
> 
> arr, well i think i got it now. You are talking about the _total_ buffer
> size, right? Up to now it was determined by --nperiods * --periods. But
> since some soundcards don't support these exact buffer sizes, you changed it
> so that the total buffer size is big enough that --nperiods * --periods fits
> into it, right?

Right.  

I forgot to update the --help text.  It should now say "Number of
periods of playback latency".  Will fix soon.
-- 
  joq


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