On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 19:27, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> Ah, OK. yes, i suppose this might not be clear.
> 
> when you set the size of a "period" in ALSA, you are basically setting
> the interval at which the h/w will interrupt the host system to notify
> it that space/data is available. so, if you set it for 128 frames at
> 48kHz, when the h/w will interrupt us every 2.3msec. 
> 
...
<Rest of nice description clipped>


Thanks for that explanation, clarifies a lot for me.

-- 
    Josh Green
    Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)


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