[linux-audio-dev] re: [linux-audio-user] A bit of good news--paper now available for your viewing pleasure and/or comments

[Jack O'Quin]

"Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico at fuse.net> writes:

> Forgot to add that my assumption is (in addition to my previous
> statement) if JACK was then running using reasonably small buffers
> the drift would be then minimized if not alleviated since JACK is
> one that is dispatching the buffers at appropriate time, right?

JACK expects there to be *no* drift and does *nothing* to manage this
problem.  It can only work with high-end cards using word-clock or
other sample-accurate synchronization.  Probably someone has succeeded
with that (though I can't recall a specific report).
-- 
  joq