Beside numerous other things process repriorization is part of TT3.0. I'm running such a setup since almost a year on my Touch. ;) There's no need to integrate anything else as far as I can see.
Some words about the OS tuning history - the way I see it: I introduced those priorization tweaks around 2007 on my Linux platform. You'll find references at beforementioned DIY-Audio thread. At that time I also had a Wiki up describing what to do. At that time only the XXHighend player (I know the designer - we've been challenging our setups in A/B testing sessions) was running a similar approach on a Windows Vista platform. Cplay/CMP came up at a later stage trying to port all those tweaks to an XP platform. All those approaches have the same thing in common: 1. Get the system load down (HW and SW) 2. get highest priority on your audio process 3. Look for the straightest way to the device I think we all managed quite well. By entering the network streaming world another problem popped up. The actual streaming/networking. This prevents us from pushing the limits as done on a standalone PC. We can't cut of the stream during playback. I mentioned that before. Don't get foolded by remarks "20s-30s of data is buffered, there's no impact". Those people just ignore the fact, that the buffer gets continously refilled, causing pretty serious load ( from a processor sharing perspective). The only way to get around this is IMO to do a full-file-buffering or at least bulk downloads to avoid continous streaming. That of course requires much more RAM on the renderer. Why do I bring this up? Let's hope that Logitech comes up with a better steaming solution sooner or later. On the other hand life could be much easier. All this annyoing tweaking would not be necassary if manufacturers would build better audio interfaces. Those devices "just" would have to decouple from the PC/OS induced mess properly. I'm not aware of any audio interface at any price, which does it properly. Any hints are very welcome. Those manufacturers/engineers obviously won't manage to decouple their devices/DACs from PC/OS induced distortions. And I don't see any movements to be honest. And it's not just SPDIF. You'll find the same situation even on very expensive asynchronous USB DACs. Back to the Touch and its process priorization: Logitech has played around with the priorization stuff. They introduced the realtime kernel (a key factor to get your processes prioritzed with brute force). The realtime kernel is IMO the key differentiator from OSX and Windows. None of those systems can provide a similar base. Logitech further applied a pretty basic prorizatioin scheme. Yep. They've done some adjustments. They just havn't pushed the limits. ;) Bck to TT30. I'll launch TT.30 by the end of September. I do not have time to do all the required preparations beforehand. Enjoy the rest of the summer. I'll do. Cheers -- soundcheck ::: ' Touch Toolbox 2.0 and more' (http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com) ::: by soundcheck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ soundcheck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
