[LAU] Jack - buffers V periods

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Chris Caudle wrote:

> On Thu, January 18, 2018 6:10 pm, Michael Jarosch wrote:
>> Then: What's missing to make pulseaudio being able to handle pro-audio
>> (and resolves us from the sound-server-mess :) )?
>
> Red Hat is working on something along those lines, but they decided to
> also make the server support video, so that it is a full multi-media
> server, not just audio.  I think (my opinion only) that will make the task
> so much more complicated that it will be years before there is a working
> version that serves the use of  PulseAudio and jack in a single server, if
> they ever finish.  Maybe I am too pessimistic, hopefully they will have a
> proof of concept sometime this year.

Video too? Yikes! My first thought is that would make things easier. 
Lowest latency would be one video frame... 30-ish ms, useless for live 
audio effects/synth of course.


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