[Jack-Devel] What about the number of buffers?

crocket crockabiscuit at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 05:49:42 CEST 2019


Do recent usb soundcards need "-n 3"?

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:31 AM Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 16:59 +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:
> > What is the difference between
> >   jackd -n2 -p192
> > and
> >   jackd -n3 -p128
>
> Anything other than -n2 is for esoteric reasons:
>
> https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface
>
> There might be some truth behind the theory, but in practise something
> like 128 or 256 frames, 2 periods/buffer at 48 KHz works without issues.
>
>
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