11 Dec
2009
11 Dec
'09
12:45 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Krzysztof Foltman <wdev(a)foltman.com> wrote:
Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
no ALSA application needs to pay any attention to an xrun. most
developers don't set up the device parameters correctly to avoid this.
one could make the argument that "ignore xruns" should be the default.
you might, or might not, win that argument.
no frustration. I'm not talking about
hyper-low-latency, just
having to avoid stopping and starting programs that require
sound, ever.
The situation where special recovery code is needed by application in
case of xrun is rather weird, in my opinion. Especially when it's
relatively easy to get that recovery code wrong.