[LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzynq at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 17.12.09 13:52, Kjetil S. Matheussen (k.s.matheussen at notam02.no) wrote:
>
>> Mixing works just fine, even when using ASIO. Maybe you have to start
>> the asio program first though, I don't know. But still, there's no
>> reason why you shouldn't have a global option, lets say 256 frames
>> 48000Hz, that everything mixes down to, and then software which needs
>> hardcore low-level performance must obey to that setting.
>
> Uh, that's a great way to burn your battery.
>
> If you care about more than pro audio, then you want to dynamically
> adjust the sleep times based on the requirements of the clients
> connected. That means you cannot use fixed sized hardware fragments
> anymore, but need to schedule audio more dynamically using system
> timers.
>
> This in fact is where most of the complexity in systems such as
> PulseAudio stems from.

and before the accusations start flying, this is also how CoreAudio
works on OS X (and even more so in the iPhone "version" of CoreAudio,
which doesn't a lot like CoreAudio at all).

--p