[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Distributed LADSPA Processing

[Paul Davis]

> - the system needs every period to be the same size (unless you are not
>   running in real-time or the remote load is *very* low, but then what
>   is the point?).

thats potentially a bit ugly, but in practice, its probably going to
work, especially with JACK-driven clients/hosts.

> - The system adds to the latency the equivalent of a single period. That
>   is, if your period size is 2ms for a total input-to-output latency of
>   4ms, the system adds another 2ms to the latency, so total latency goes
>   to 6ms.

does the metaplugin have a control output port called "latency"? this
is an unofficial "standard" that swh (and perhaps the tap) plugins use
to communicate latency to a host. it would allow ardour to keep tracks
in sync that use this kind of processing.

>If jack udp transport doesn't work adequately (haven't tested it), I
>intend to adapt the code to work on top of jack too (should be reasonably
>easy).

jack.rtp is probably a better candidate :)

it all sounds very interesting.

--p