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. And it doesn't need to be in kernel space, by the way. OSS4 is dying because of that. For the rest of us mere mortals, PulseAudio Rocks; it has *variable* latencies by design, so the audio processing doesn't eat up all the battery life. Again, read the comparison between PulseAudio and Jack: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
