[linux-audio-user] Blue snoball USB mic

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:49 +0100, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:45 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > jackd -d alsa -P hw:N -C hw:!N
> 
> Ah, I thought I remembered something like that. That would work great
> for me, the only thing I have plugged into the inputs on my soundcard is
> the sound from my TV card, and I usually don't want to record from that
> using JACK. How does it work internally? If one of the devices has a
> clock that is slightly slower than the other, will jackd resample the
> signal to make it as smooth as possible? Or will there be
> discontinuities when jackd has to skip forward or backward in one of the
> streams to catch up with the other?

jackd never skips in this way. there will be xruns that will grow worse
and more frequent as the two devices drift out of sync, and therefore
are not "ready" at the same time. whichever is ready first won't be
"serviced" by jackd until the other one is. 

--p