My guess is that the latency issue increases proportionately with the age of the machine being deployed on and the number of simultaneous sound files being played. Would I guess correctly? In addition to game dev, little kiddie ware is big on multiple simultaneous sound files playing and those are the people likely using low-end machines (I mean, who really lets their 3 year old with the spilling sippy cup use their MacBookPro/Windows analog?). Remember I work in edu and write stuff for little kids in schools with crap for hardware. Come to think of it, I just spent 4 hours at my uni's satellite campus, where we also have crap for hardware. And IT people who don't know what a software license is, or what a "Vista-capable" machine would look like. Our wired network is snot-slow and the wifi is iffy at best.
I rent server space from Mark Schonewille for Moodle (because my departmental sysadmin refuses to do Moodle server backups) and, with ~25 students in the lab all trying to access his server, not one of us could actually get the entire page to correctly load. It took Mark & I a couple of hours to be able to verify that it was our network bottleneck that was the problem. Sorry -- not a great day. Not the way to start off a new semester. Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote: > Judy Perry wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Given the limitations of the old Mac sound architecture, > >> and the flexibility of player objects, what's the upside > >> to HC's method? > > > > No Players? > > > > ;-) > > > > No latencies? > > True, the QT architecture is not known for its nimbleness. ;) > > But aside from emulating sequencers (rarely done these days with GarageBand > and all the cool MIDI tools and real sequencers available), how often does > the modest latency introduced by QT affect things noticeably? > > I'm just grateful I never need to spend another wetware clock cycle dealing > with the differences between SND Type 1 and Type 2 resources. :) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution