On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:46:27 -0400 Paul Braman <brama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Braman wrote: > > > > I guess therein lies some of the fundamental difference with how I was > > previously thinking. I figured I could just ask the driver/device for > > some basic defaults that should work but, instead, I should *tell* it > > what basic defaults I can live with. (Set buffer size near 1s and > > period size near 125ms.) > > I've come to the conclusion that this is stupid as hell. ALSA is > fundamentally flawed if it requires me to set anything more than the > access/format/channels/rate to make basic recording work. I should be > able to ask what the period size is it uses by default for the > hardware and do reads of that size without fear of "xrun" conditions > on my otherwise-unloaded 533MHz CPU. > > All of the documentation and examples I've found on the ALSA wiki and > in various other places have yet to state this basic premise, which I > consider another great flaw in ALSA. Examples show how to make basic > settings but never explain that you can't expect reliable behavior > without doing so. > > I'm almost afraid to venture into this realm of basic S/PDIF recording > with ALSA, but I have to because that's my job. > > > Paul Braman > Maybe these: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto https://lwn.net/Articles/120797/ can help ? Regards, Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
