[Alsa-devel] buffer_size and period_size

2003-01-27 Thread Jozef Kosoru
Hi! I've tried to port some aplication from old ALSA-0.5.x to the new alsa library interface. I'm not an expert in the sound programming and available documentation seems to be rather poor in term of explaining the main concept. I would like to fully understand the exact meaning of buffer_size

RE: [Alsa-devel] buffer_size and period_size

2003-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
? Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Davis Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:32 AM To: Jozef Kosoru Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] buffer_size and period_size I would like to fully understand the exact

Re: [Alsa-devel] buffer_size and period_size

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Davis
Paul, So with -p 64 -n 2 settings, what number of bytes of audio data is transferred across the PCI bus between each interrupt? the period size is always (as with almost all ALSA metrics) in units of audio frames (1 sample for each channel). so with JACK running at -p 64, 64 frames of data are