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

Victor Lazzarini Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie
Thu Dec 17 14:58:05 UTC 2009


Through which API? I not sure I understand audio IO on Vista, with the  
concurrent existence of several APIs. Never mind, perhaps this is a  
bit OT in a Linux Audio list...

Victor

On 17 Dec 2009, at 14:45, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Thu, 17.12.09 09:14, Paul Davis (paul at linuxaudiosystems.com) wrote:
>
>>> 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).
>
> And Vista apparently too as it seems.
>
> Lennart
>
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