[linux-audio-dev] BruteFIR + jack = crackling noise?

[Martijn Sipkema]

> > [...]
> > > > Perhaps you would reconsider having JACK use constant (frames)
> > > > callbacks?
> > >
> > > I think a better solution might be to buffer up enough samples so that
> > > jackd can provide a constant number of frames.
> >
> > I don't think that is a better solution. JACK should be close to the
> > hardware and deliver what the hardware is capable of. If a client needs
> > constant (frames) period, it can do the buffering itself.
>
> Not without making the cpu load unpredictable.

Is that so? And why is it that JACK can and a client cannot?

> I think its a bad idea to life hard for (some) clients because of a few
> bad hardware designs.

Hardly a few. And not even necessarily bad.

--ms