On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:12 AM, "Alexander Carôt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> can anyone give me an explanation why the blocking delay of a soundcard 
> appears twice using the ALSA driver ? E.g. with 48 kHz at 128 samles / frame 
> I understand that the capturing process requires 2,6 ms to actually fill one 
> block of audio samples (= blocking delay of 2,6 ms).
>
> However, so far I havn't understood why the devices requires another 2,6 ms 
> latency for the playout : If a captured buffer of 128 sampels is already 
> there why can't the device use each of its samples successively and play it 
> out directly ?
>
> Thanks in advance for clarification
>
> -- A l e x
>

think in terms of mixing:

2.6mS to get the data into the system

0 second to do processing such as mixing with something on disk,
adding reverb, etc.

2.6 to get the mixed audio back out

- Mark

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