On Saturday, December 12, 2009, Dominic Sacré wrote: > In the documentation of the ALSA sequencer API, I couldn't find any > mention of an upper limit. Some sources suggest that ALSA splits SysEx > messages into chunks of 256 bytes,
Only for incoming system exclusive messages (receiving SysEx messages in applications using ALSA API). > but from my own attempts at sending > larger messages, it seems the limit is actually somewhere around 5500 > bytes. Unfortunately ALSA doesn't seem to report an error when I try to > send larger chunks, instead the messages just disappear. Can anyone shed > some light on how to handle larger SysEx messages correctly? It has been discussed recently in this mailing list. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.devel/18617 Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev