On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:21:47PM -0400, S. Massy wrote: > > > Okay, so for a standard 2 periods of 128 frames each, my nominal dddelay > > is 256 frames or 5.3ms at a sr of 48k, twice that for a round-trip. > > No. The nominal roundtrip-delay (physical input to physical output > if you connect the corresponding ports directly) is period * nperiods. > > 1 * period occurs at the input, (nperiods - 1) * period at the output. Thanks for clarifying this. I understand that the round trip delay for the soundcard is the sum of capture port latency and playback port latency, plus whatever additional delay is associated with the AD/DA converters. However I see what appears to be a discrepency for the latencies reported by jackd (2 + 2 periods roundtrip) and by jack_lsp -l (1 + 2 periods round trip). This is for jackd2. jackd says: configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames (23.2 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback However, jack_lsp -l says: system:capture_1 port latency = 1024 frames port playback latency = [ 0 0 ] frames port capture latency = [ 1024 1024 ] frames system:capture_2 port latency = 1024 frames port playback latency = [ 0 0 ] frames port capture latency = [ 1024 1024 ] frames system:playback_1 port latency = 2048 frames port playback latency = [ 2048 2048 ] frames port capture latency = [ 0 0 ] frames system:playback_2 port latency = 2048 frames port playback latency = [ 2048 2048 ] frames port capture latency = [ 0 0 ] frames Is this inconistent, or is there some other explanation? > If you masure it using jack_delay you will in most cases find a value > that is a bit higher, this is due to delay in AD/DA converters etc. For > some types of soundcard (e.g. USB) the real latency can be significantly > higher than the nominal value. You can tell Jack about this using the > -I and -O options. > > > The extra delay when making a loop such as Ardour -> jconvolver -> Ardour > is one period. Great to have these details available for unschooled developers as myself! Regards, Joel > Ciao, > > -- > FA -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user