[linux-audio-dev] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Stéphane Letz]

Le 21 juin 05 à 02:15, ian esten a écrit :

> would it not be possible to have the midishare to jack bridge buffer
> events that are timestamped in the future, and then schedule them in
> realtime in the process callback?
> ian

This would require *each* client to have its own scheduler... (since  
events may be sent out of order by the application in the MidiShare  
model). Crazy !
The proper model would be to have the scheduler at the server level  
of course...

Stephane Letz

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> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote:
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>> I would say that one the may problem is that jack MIDI does not  
>> has the
>> concept of time-stamps in the "future" . The Jack MIDI "events" are
>> received in real-time (similar to what MidiShare does with the  
>> Receive
>> callback concepts) but have also to be delivered in real-time.
>> In the absence of any scheduling mechanism,  I don't think the
>> MidiShare API could be re-built on top of the underlying Jack MIDI
>> buffer transports system.
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>> Stephane Letz
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