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From: Bram Bos <bos3@upcmail.nl>
To: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: Asynchronous ALSA - callback and latency questions
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:50:14 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <901056793.444760.1410259814514.open-xchange@upcmail.upc.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5ha969fa4c.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

> > > > I’m using ALSA for building a performance musical instrument, so I’m
> > > > after
> > > > low-latency audio output.
> > > >
> > > > 1. I’m using asynchronous audio output (i.e. using a callback).
> > >
> > > Don't.
> >
> > That's an interesting insight. I reckoned using a callback was the most
> > elegant
> > solution since that's what I'm used to for DirectSound, iOS, OSX, WMME, ASIO
> > etc.
>
> If you want to go in that direction, just use JACK.

And the next best alternative would be blocked-mode/polling through ALSA, then?

I'd prefer to have as few software interface layer dependencies as comfortably
possible, so if I can get away with using only ALSA without requiring JACK that
would be a plus for me.

Thanks
Bram
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 16:03 Asynchronous ALSA - callback and latency questions Bram Bos
2014-09-09  8:24 ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-09-09  8:44   ` Bram Bos
2014-09-09  8:53     ` Takashi Iwai
2014-09-09 10:50       ` Bram Bos [this message]
2014-09-09 11:23         ` Clemens Ladisch

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