FW: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency

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Subject: FW: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency
From: Garth Brantley (garth_AT_fullduplex.com)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 18:33:01 EEST


-----Original Message-----
From: Garth Brantley
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:33 AM
To: Garth Brantley
Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency

Sorry, here is my signature for the letter!

 -Garth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Brantley [mailto:garth_AT_fullduplex.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:59 AM
> To: linux-audio-dev_AT_ginette.musique.umontreal.ca
> Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re:
> low latency
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Barton-Davis [mailto:pbd_AT_Op.Net]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:35 PM
> > To: linux-audio-dev_AT_ginette.musique.umontreal.ca
> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re:
> > low latency
> >
> ...
> >
> > This distinction between "close to the h/w" and "i want my API" is
> > even more true for audio. There is no way in hell that you would
> > sensibly do real-time FX on a networked audio connection. For such
> > things, you want to sit nice and close to the audio
> interface. But for
> > many things (WM audio messages, for example), you really want a nice
> > API that handles networking transparently.
> >
>
> I think the really big underlying problem here is that neither the
> architecture of the personal computer or current network
> topology are well
> suited to handling realtime data/proccessing. It occurrs to
> me that the
> determining decisions were made long before Linus's time.
> Maybe instead of
> adopting audio I/O cards and standardizing the ASIO interface
> for all this
> time, we should have been standardizing a DSP card
> architecture & software
> tools to develop for it. Just a thought.
>
> -Garth
>
> > As a result of this distinction we should not expect a
> single uniform
> > "audio subsystem" that all audio apps could use. The same
> thing is now
> > happening with X, with the emergence of DRI and Berlin, except that
> > its happening after X's widespread adoption.
> >
> ...
> > --p
>


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