To be honest, I've had to use USB sound cards in some situations. I've had an emu 0202 running for well over 6months serving a stream to icecast. I've recently swapped the whole setup to liquidsoap with a different USB sound card (the brand escapes me at the moment) and its been running for nearly a month with no hint of a hiccup.
It hadn't really occurred to me that there would be a problem. My PC/Sound card is in a temperature controlled server room which might help a bit. PCI-Express card wise my options are a bit limited: http://www.esi-audio.com/products/juliaxte/ Which means I'll have to drop to two stereo outs but it is workable. The only other reasonably cheap PCI-Express card I've found is the E-MU 1616M but there are lots of people moaning about this on Linux systems so I've kind of discounted it. Either way this is £100 more than I was looking. Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 18/10/12 14:41, Cowboy wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2012 09:28:27 am Alan Peterson wrote: >> An exchange I started here on Aug 15-16 addressed some USB matters, with Rob >> Landry stating, "I have never found Rivendell to run reliably with any USB >> audio device. It will work for a couple of weeks, then it will stop working >> until the machine is rebooted." > I find it depends on the machine and the device. > Most machines, and most USB devices, are intended for temporary > use, and tend to lock up after a while. > Most machines ( Apple and Micro$oft ) are intended for the home > user, so the machine is rebooted daily, resetting the buss and > removing any memory leak problems. > > Think about it. If USB was all that great, we wouldn't have > serial ATA for hard drives. We'd have an internal USB. > ####################### Scanned by MailMarshal ####################### ############ Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ############ _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
