On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 07:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > >> Latency is the delay between giving the order to play a sound and the > >> sound actually being played. It's usually around 30ms here with > >> ALSA/dmix, and around 10ms with OSS/vmix. It's not funny trying to > >> play something in a software synth with a keyboard when having a 30ms > >> latency. > > > > As I said, you're doing it wrong. No "normal" (average desktop, media > > center, laptop, linux-phone) user needs 10ms of latency in audio. > > That's overkill. Yours is a special case, and you need special > > software. Try Jack. > > I don't do professional audio. I have a normal PC. And just like I > sometimes use a synth in Windows (I'm just a hobbyist), I'd like to do > the same in Linux. > > Windows: I don't need Jack there. Audio latency is low even with > non-ASIO drivers. > > Linux: I suddenly need "Jack" and specialty hacks and must do without a > mixer! No thanks. OSSv4 allows me to use my machine in the same manner > as Windows: It just works and does the right thing regardless of the > application I'm running. > > ALSA/Pulse needing third-party stuff just to get basics right > (acceptable latency; not *ultra* low latency, just acceptable one) is a > sign that they're not designed right. > > And OSS4 dying because of kernel-mixing is a bit far-stretched. "No FP > mixing in kernel" is Linux-specific. Other kernels don't have a problem > with that. > > And in the end, you know what? Even if OSS4 had a broken design, it's > still better, because it works better. At least it gets the basics > right. Other operating systems are much more advanced in that manner. > It's ALSA that holds Linux audio back.
in case that it works at all. OSSv4 fucked up very hard here. And for some magical reasons, I have no problem at all with latencies. But sometimes you complain about latencies, and when people showing up, that lats are not a problem, you switch over to 'volume' and 'mixing'. Just to ignore the facts presented there. Go troll somewhere else. Maybe the OSS fanboy mailing list.
