On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17.12.09 13:52, Kjetil S. Matheussen ([email protected]) > wrote: > >> Mixing works just fine, even when using ASIO. Maybe you have to start >> the asio program first though, I don't know. But still, there's no >> reason why you shouldn't have a global option, lets say 256 frames >> 48000Hz, that everything mixes down to, and then software which needs >> hardcore low-level performance must obey to that setting. > > Uh, that's a great way to burn your battery. > > If you care about more than pro audio, then you want to dynamically > adjust the sleep times based on the requirements of the clients > connected. That means you cannot use fixed sized hardware fragments > anymore, but need to schedule audio more dynamically using system > timers. > > This in fact is where most of the complexity in systems such as > PulseAudio stems from.
and before the accusations start flying, this is also how CoreAudio works on OS X (and even more so in the iPhone "version" of CoreAudio, which doesn't a lot like CoreAudio at all). --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
