Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] design question for HDR
From: James McCartney (asynth_AT_io.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 16:53:37 EEST
on 4/3/00 8:45 AM, James McCartney at asynth_AT_io.com wrote:
> on 4/2/00 6:35 PM, Paul Barton-Davis at pbd_AT_Op.Net wrote:
>
>> It increasingly appears to me that Linux, even with Ultra-2 SCSI
>> disks, cannot keep up the required data flow for 24 channel recording
>> when the channels go to *individual files* instead of being
>> interleaved.
>
> How about interleaved segments rather than interleaved samples? This keeps
> things contiguous on disk in one file, but doesn't make it a practical
> impossibility to slip tracks.
Oops, never mind. Should have read more carefully..
You don't have to rewrite the entire file after cutting one track if you map
the segments to the sector sizes. Nondestructive would seem to be a problem
here though.
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