[linux-audio-user] latency issues

Aaron Trumm aaron at nquit.com
Mon Oct 6 21:23:00 EDT 2003


> > It is a somewhat known problem with Pd. If you use Pd in OSS mode ("pd
> > -oss" or similar) using ALSA's OSS emulation you should get much
> > better results.  I have no idea and much too little understanding of
> > ALSA programming, why this is so.
>
> well, i'll be.  according to pd, with oss mode, i can get
> audiobuffer set down to 0 msec!  now to test with an actual audioloop
> (latency.pd).
>
> did that, and i can get latency down to 4ms at 48k with oss emulation,
> instead of 14.6ms with plain alsa.  woohoo!  thanks a bunch!

I'm trying to follow this thread here so I can start testing latency - what IS 
PD I've only opened it once and I can't understand it. *laugh*  I'll have to 
go read up on it I suppose...

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