On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:09 +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Dave Dillow wrote: > > > While refining the sis7019 for submission, I found a possible issue with > > having a single period per buffer. The easy way out is to set the > > minimum number of periods to 2, but I see other drivers allow a single > > period. This leads to a question about the semantics of a single period > > that I've not been able to resolve using Google. > > > > Any one have any thoughts or pointers to a discussion on having a single > > period per buffer? Should it be a one-shot play, or just let it hit XRUN > > every time? Other ideas? > > I think, one period buffer can be only useable when XRUN check is disabled > (endless ring buffer playing) and application has own timing and polls for > the actual position in the ring buffer. Thanks for the clarification -- I'll code accordingly. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
