8 Jan
2014
8 Jan
'14
6:35 p.m.
On 01/08/2014 05:54 PM, James Stone wrote:
[..]
This discussion about the Scarlett 18i8 has got me
thinking about
latency with USB devices. Is there an accepted buffer size that USB
audio interfaces should be able to use with jackd now? I do seem to be
getting xruns with 128/2 (even occasionally with 256/2 on program
startup/shutdown), but I have not made any particular effort to try to
tune my system for low-latency use.
try 128/3 or 96/2 .. See the excellent recent explanation from Clemens
on that subject:
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2013-December/095401…
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Also, how meaningful is the reported jackd buffer size
in terms of
actual latency?
jack buffer size is only meaningful within jack.
Additional latency introduced by hardware depends on the hardware.
As with any complex system where you cannot precisely know what is
happening: measure it, with jack_delay (or it's son jack_iodelay which
is included with jackd these days).
Results for some USB devices:
http://robin.linuxaudio.org/tmp/vsl1818latency.png
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/_detail/wiki/jack_latency_tests/latency-ua25-cor…
created with http://gareus.org/gitweb/?p=latentor.git
You'll find some patterns and there usually is a relationship between
the jack-buffersize and the actual round-trip latency. But it's
different for different hardware (and to some extend also
software/drivers,.. the whole stack)
ciao,
robin
