>I would say that the realtime capabilities of alsa were fine. >I help write/develop xine (xine.sf.net) which is a media player for linux. >alsa provides us with perfect audio to video sync. > >Our only requirement is to know how many samples are currently in the audio >buffer. >So, if we send another sample to the buffer, we can calculate exactly how >long it will wait in the buffer before being played. > >For what type of real-time applications would this approach not work?
as just one example, those that want to work in tandem with other audio (+ video) applications. see my message (probably next one up) in response to abramo for more on this. --p _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
