Am I right in assuming that by default you mean the "plughw:" devices?
On my machine the plughw: device glitched constantly, but the hw:
devices worked really well. There was also some other reason I chose
that.. can't remember offhand what it was though.
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
  Julian Storer wrote:
  Ok, thanks Lee - I deliberately used the hw pcm
devices though, as
 they gave better performance than the default one. I guess it just
 needs support for some extra data formats.
 
 What do you mean? Better performance in what way?
 The "default" will have no performance hit is the sound card supports
 the same format as the application, otherwise, "default" will
 automatically do sample format conversion.
 In any case, the ALSA device name to use should be user configurable.
 James
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