[LAU] Dual Delta Setup

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> ck sets the device up (sends sample rate and buffer size) doesn't
> the multi device have to send that info to both devices? Wouldn't that
> start both at the same time? Making the difference between readiness
> within a sample? (I ask because I don't know) When the master restarts, is
> there any indication sent to the slave via s/pdif?
>

s/pdif won't carry that information.

when i studied the ALSA code for this years ago, it looked to me as though
even on a late 1990's CPU, you could still expect both devices to start
*within* 1 sample of each other.

the problem as it been described here, seems more to be:


> >
> > So, you get a situation where poll() returns because there's data on
> > the master device, but then the 'multi' device indicates there's no
> > data because it checks all of the devices and returns the minimum
> > value for the amount of data available, which JACK thinks is an xrun
> > because the ALSA driver's wait function returns 0 when anything less
> > than a period's worth of data is available, and a 0 result is
> > interpreted as an xrun.  This results in tons and tons of xruns, as
> > JACK essentially busy waits until there is actually a period of data
> > available on all of the devices that make up the multi device.
>

so they can be off by 1 sample (for example) and this can happen. ALSA
needs to wait for the slowest/last of the linked devices, not the first. or
so it appears.
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