26 Jan
2022
26 Jan
'22
6:33 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Wim Taymans wrote:
Running PipeWire on top of JACK was something that was
requested early
on because firewire audio support was broken in the
kernel and there was no other way to run that hardware otherwise. Now
that this is largely fixed, running PipeWire on JACK is
Great news, trying alsa stack again.... fails at buffer size 512... try at
1024 jack starts at least. So "largely fixed" means the minimum buffer
size has gone from 256 (still too high for live work) to 1024? ffado
continues to work just fine down to buffer at 16. While buffer at 16 is
lower than needed (64 seems to be ok) it does show stability.
So at least as of linux 5.15, ALSA firewire is still broken or at least
not useful and getting worse rather than better.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net