On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Paul Davis wrote: > >> i know that gstreamer (and perhaps GLAME too) appear to have worked > >> these issues out. if so, thats great, and i hope that their designs > >> can be incorporated into jackd at some point, so that (1) if there are > >> independent substreams and (2) there are more than 2 processors then > >> it could support multiple audio threads. there are some vague ideas > >> present in the existing code base that point in this direction. > > > >Well, I don't think GStreamer has completely worked things out yet. > > all i meant was that i think both gstreamer and glame can (correctly) > identify independent subgraphs in the overall graph. the rest of their > infrastructure and design isn't relevant apart from where it affects > their ability to do this. > > can someone correct me if i'm wrong about this ability?
You're right wrt GLAME - GLAME does use as much processors as are currently available (tested on 4-way, dont have a machine with more processors available here). But it does so by using the operating systems capability to schedule readyy-to-run threads, not by analyzing the graph. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/ The GLAME Project: http://www.glame.de/
