On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:37:32 +0100 Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2016 06:48 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > > > > As far as I know, most of this should be possible right now. Jack does > > tell all clients when it enters freewheel. Really what is the difference > > from freewheel to real time? Each client still spends the same time > > processing as based on the same SR. > > Every application that uses ringbuffers to decouple the process callback > from actual processing will fall over if freewheeling is not special cased. > > There are more than a couple of jack-apps that process in background > thread(s) (e.g. convolvers), not to mention synths that stream from disk > or capture apps that write to disk. > > > > On the practical side, what does freewheel gain? > > e.g. Export a 90 min soundtrack (or podcast or concert,..) in just under > 5 minutes (or thereabouts; ~ 1.0 / DSP-load faster, export usually also > happens with larger buffers with decreases DSP load) > > ciao, > robin Interesting. Presumably that means things like live mixing are out. Change a fader and you've no idea where it will actually appear in the final audio :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
