On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:19:07 +0100, Christophe Vescovi wrote: > When reading articles on low-latency linux, xruns are often mentionned > but I can not figure what it exactly means, could someone explain me > that -surely- simple thing ? Its when the software can't keep up with the soundcard and misses a block of data, it usually causes a click. AKA overrun. Its generaly cased by schedualling latency, ie. the time it takes the kernel to switch between processes. This is what the low-latency patches reduce. > The other question is about jack. Does Jack enable synchronisation > between HD recorder (ecasound, ardour) and midi sequencer (Muse for > example) ? I saw something about the transport feature of jack, but does > not know exactly what it does. That is what its for, but I'm not sure how completely its implemented in the apps. Ecasound has a pretty complete implementyation IIRC. - Steve
