M-.-n wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to get my audio driver working with ALSA but there's the issue of > defining the buffer size and period that I can't seem to figure out really. > I've tryed to google for some good definition of what they represent and how > they should be used with respect to the asynchroneous callback but couldn't > find too much that would help. use jack :) then you don't have to care about that. iiuc, the buffer size is in samples, and period defines how many buffers are used - i guess this is per hardware interrupt, but i may be wrong. high-end cards can do bufsize=32 and p=2. most cards should be able to easily do 512/3. if latency is not an issue, you can use 4096/3 to save cycles. -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
