[LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

[Esben Stien]

Dennis Schulmeister <linux-audio-dev at windows3.de> writes:

> If you do a "regular" phone call from one mobile phone to another you
> easily get 1 second latency. The point is you don't notice it unless
> you're standing next to the other person.

Well, 1 second is totally unacceptable on VoIP;). I don't use a headset
and neither does the persons I talk to.

The audio goes out my speakers and the remote persons speakers and if
there were a 1 second delay, that would be pretty annoying trying to
talk. 

> But then what's the reason behind ultra-small hardware buffers which
> need to be refreshed very quickly in contrast to the comparatively large
> buffers needed for the input stream in the first place?

?

> I see the reasoning for games, though.

Right, and like gaming with VoIP, coordinating the first strike team. 

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