On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:07 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > [4] > > > > You can't apply a soundcard mixer gain change at some exact > > point in a sample stream. So you can't change the master > > gain and change your internal scaling to compensate at > > exactly the same time. There will always be a glitch. > > That's the important point. And because look ahead for a realtime > livestream is impossible without a time machine, you need to lower the > level with a guess about the needed headroom, before you increase the > other level, assumed we are near at margin of full scale. Or is it possible for software to be that fast, that it doesn't matter? Perhaps a look ahead is possible?
