On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Andreas Beck wrote:
> Hi folks. I know its heavily OT, but the most clued people are here ...
>
> How does one make sure sound and video keep in sync in a multimedia type
> application ?
Use the new ALSA API. It's sequencer support is much more
advanced than the old OSS sequencer.
> The problem is again the buffering. When recording, I have no problem, as the
> data gets readable as soon as the buffers are full enough, but when writing
> the writes will not block (as the buffers are bigger) and thus I have a
> constant delay between audio and video when playing back the stream by
> relying on the audio device to block.
The new ALSA supports double buffering of PCM I/O. IMHO that and
the new timer/synch support should solve your problem.
www.alsa-project.org has all the details.
Jon
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