On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Christopher Monty Montgomery wrote: > > I *must* be able to trust that an isoch stream will not randomly crash > > and burn unrecoverably. A stutter is bad enough, but having the only > > underrun behavior be 'Oops! Sorry! You lose!' is not acceptable, and > > I don't care how 'correct' it is to have a whole troupe of people > > unhappy with me for the sound hardware failing again. > > In the case of ALSA, it's the application's choice whether an underrun > should stop the stream. I don't know which application you were using, > but in the case of Jack, it was decided that it would be better to > have the stream stopped so that the xrun can be detected and reported > instead of having an unexplained (or worse, undetected) stutter.
Would it be better to add a way for the kernel to inform the application that an xrun occurred? Although I don't know how that would work... Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
