Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: Ansynchronous Streaming Protocol
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 21:54:23 EET
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:46:37 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Linuxsampler requires very tight interaction between the streaming
> > code and playback code to work.
>
> Yes. You need to be able to tell the "butler thread" which files to
> load/cache, and it may need to know the maximum bandwidth you will
> use, so it can set up sufficient caching - if there's a point in
> being that picky, that is. (Streaming from disk is nondeterministic
> enough that the difference in latency between starting a 48
> ksamples/s stream and a 96 ksamples/s stream becomes insignificant.)
Theres more to it than that, you have to also be aware of loop points,
layers etc.
Realisticly it has to run as a mutithreaded process.
- Steve
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