Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> writes:
> jack now has a "freewheeling" mode for
faster
> than realtime operation.
Seriously, folks, I can appreciate that what is
probably meant is
'faster than what the hardware considers to be realtime', but I think
we have to be careful with the semantics here. Otherwise, people will
think that Linux audio developers are promising the impossible!
Realtime is not a hardware abstraction. It is implicit in the digital
audio datastream. Number of frames divided by frame rate yields a
realtime duration. If JACK and its clients take one minute to process
a three minute song this is "faster than realtime", just as my 24x CD
burner runs faster than realtime.
Is this really confusing you?
--
joq