On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >>Thankyou, I will use snd_pcm_drop(), but as a side note, what actually
> >>does "snd_pcm_reset()" do.
> >>Just resetting delay to 0 does not make much sense to me.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It drops all samples in the ring buffer (thus reseting delay to 0). Note
> >that everybody are welcome to improve the current documentation
> >(preferably with patches).
> >
> > Jaroslav
> >
> >
> Ok, so snd_pcm_drop drops all samples in the buffer, so I would assume
> this sets the delay to 0.
> so snd_pcm_reset drops all sample in the buffer, so as you say is sets
> delay to 0.
> So my question is "What is the difference between the 2 functions?"
reset() doesn't stop the stream. It's mainly useable, if you have streams
linked together with hardware or if an application wants to act very
realtime and has xrun detection disabled.
Jaroslav
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