Lee Revell wrote:
You are mixing up period_time (which is in microseconds) with
period_size (which is in frames). period_time defaults to 125000.
Why do you want to use an .asoundrc at all?
I want to set period size or time to a value so that the buffer is 16kb
- because that's what the
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
The thing is, in my application I can't set period time to anything else
than 21333 and that is, well, kinda bad.
Your application must be able to handle any period size.
Why does the period size matter at all?
Regards,
Clemens
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
The thing is, in my application I can't set period time to anything else
than 21333 and that is, well, kinda bad.
Your application must be able to handle any period size.
Why does the period size matter at all?
My app can handle that now, but
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:16:25 +0200
Tomas Carnecky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
The thing is, in my application I can't set period time to anything else
than 21333 and that is, well, kinda bad.
Your application must be able to handle any period
Sergei Steshenko wrote:
I might be wrong, but it seems that 4096 bytes limit comes from these
facts:
1) on Linux page size is 4096 bytes;
2) if one allocate more than 4096 bytes, the system cannot guarantee the
pages are contiguous;
3) ALSA uses DMA whenever the card supports it;
4) DMA
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:09:30 +0200
Tomas Carnecky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sergei Steshenko wrote:
I might be wrong, but it seems that 4096 bytes limit comes from these
facts:
1) on Linux page size is 4096 bytes;
2) if one allocate more than 4096 bytes, the system cannot guarantee the
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:09:30PM +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
If we're at it, can I snd_pcm_mmap_begin()/commit() more than 4096
bytes? It seems as at it's possible since wine's alsa driver does that
on the whole buffer, which can be more than 4096 bytes.
Certainly it can. My soundcard
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 08:55 +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
Lee Revell wrote:
You are mixing up period_time (which is in microseconds) with
period_size (which is in frames). period_time defaults to 125000.
Why do you want to use an .asoundrc at all?
I want to set period size or time
Sergei Steshenko wrote:
Tomas Carnecky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Your application must be able to handle any period size.
Why does the period size matter at all?
My app can handle that now, but the way how I had to do it defeats the
'zero-copy' paradigm.
