Re: [LAU] Estimating JACK latency

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:54:45PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:31 PM, S. Massy <lists@wolfdream.ca> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here is the use-case. Sending audio from one application to be processed
> > by another jack client  before being sent back, the processed signal
> > being mixed back in, possibly with a copy of itself. How would one go
> > about estimating by how much the processed signal was delayed?
>
> you don't have to estimate it. JACK will tell you.
>
> > 1) JACK base latency:
> > My understanding is that JACK will always introduce a latency of
> > buffer_size*period_size*nperiods, is that correct?
>
> no, just period_size * nperiods.
Okay, so for a standard 2 periods of 128 frames each, my nominal dddelay
is 256 frames or 5.3ms at a sr of 48k, twice that for a round-trip.

>
>
> > If the signal is
> > sent, processed, then sent back, the acquired delay would at least be
> > twice the nominal jack latency, right?
>
> yep.
>
> > - Problem: On the practical side, how could we calculate the base
> >  latency using available jack utilities? There's jack_bufsize and
> >  jack_samplerate, but no way to find the number of periods, I think.
>
> you don't. you use the part of the API that is specifically designed
> for this. read the docs for jack_port_get_latency_range()
I did, but clearly, I'm missing something. When using "jack_lsp -l" to
get latency, I get: 384 frames for system:playback_*, which is right
for my set-up, 128 frames for system:capture_*, and 0 frames for
jconvolver, which can't be rright. Shouldn't the least it can be 384
frames (-p128 -n3)?

>
>
> > 2) Latency of the processing client.
> > That would depend largely on the client, I guess.  The README.CONFIG for
> > jconvolver states that setting the partition number to be equal to the
> > jack period size would result in zero latency, for example...
>
> it does depend on the client. a well behaved client will use
> jack_port_set_latency_range() to let the rest of the world know what
> is going on.
Is that value an absolute or relative to the nominal latency?

Cheers,
S.M.
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