Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: minimum tick time
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 16:29:21 EET
>I don't agree with Paul that the latency.c test program is not a good
>example for testing and showing the capture -> process -> play circle
>required by some applications.
applications that do this will need to be multithreaded if they have
any UI at all (i.e. anything involving real-time control of the
programs operation, graphical or otherwise). this introduces a host of
complications that significantly overshadow whats involved in setting
up the basic i/o loop. latency.c is, in that sense, a toy program. toy
programs are fun, but they are not good demonstrations of how to write
applications that do more interesting things.
i consider it absurd that in a day and age where developers for OS X
can use the CoreAudio API, and developers for Windows and MacOS [0-9]
can generally focus on writing plugins, that audio developers for
linux have to be thinking about the intricate details of the ALSA
device-centered APIs.
i will work as hard as i can to get JACK into a more polished
condition so that this absurdity can be ignored by people who want to
work in ignorance of these sorts of details.
--p
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