Re: [linux-audio-dev] So, what to do about it? (was: Still I cannot understand why...)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] So, what to do about it? (was: Still I cannot understand why...)
From: Lamar Owen (lamar.owen_AT_wgcr.org)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 05:07:09 EET


On Saturday 15 December 2001 02:21 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> * no real-time CD recorder (i have a somewhat working prototype)

> >this is important to people? why?

> to me, anyway. so that i can burn CD's direct from audiostreams coming
> from external devices without having to first record them to disk. if
> a client comes to the studio and they have a DAT they want to burn to
> CD, i want to be able to that in one pass. similarly if we have the
> mix on a set of ADAT tapes plus the Digital 8 Bus mix editor, i want
> to be able to burn that without creating a WAV file first.

Even the Alesis MasterLink buffers to disk first. Can you say 'Buffer
Underrun"? Real-time burning is hard to do right, without a faster-than
real-time buffered source. Of course, BURN-Proof helps.

-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11


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