Paul D. DeRocco wrote: > If my software naturally produces samples in 64-frame chunks, but the > device is set up to have 256-frame periods, is there any advantage to > accumulating four chunks in my own buffer and writing entire periods, > versus writing each chunk separately and expecting to be blocked every > fourth time? No. And writing samples to the buffer earlier will slightly decrease the risk of an underrun. > Alternatively, would the extra overhead of reducing the period size to > 64 (96KHz stereo 32-bit LE on a Raspberry Pi 3) be significant? That is something you have to measure yourself ... Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
