[linux-audio-dev] jack and alsa design issue

[Hans Fugal]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 at 10:47 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> if your app is supposed to be a realtime audio app, then a callback
> driven model is almost demonstrably more correct. SIGIO is not
> appropriate for this. 

For context, the app is a softphone. All linux softphones stink in all
ways, plus none was readily adaptable to JACK. I, being an audio geek,
would like to hook up a call to a JACK graph. But most people would like
the thing to just work without hassle, hence the ALSA option (which
would probably be default). Is this realtime? Sort of. In any case,
hopefully more realtime than the existing softphones. But there's
network jitter which begs a jitterbuffer, and telephone conversations
aren't as sensitive to latency as many things we do here. But the
realtime programmer in me can't get excited about SIGIO.



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