On Wed, 11.07.07 17:07, Justin Tulloss (jmtulloss at gmail.com) wrote: > If I'm just going from 1 source to 1 sink, do I need to worry about > deviating crystals? Won't they just read and write data at the pace that > makes them happy, with the remainder sitting in a buffer? If capturing is faster than playback the buffer will grow larger and larger. Depending on the quality of your hardware this might get quite annyoing already after an hour or so. If capturing is slower than playback then you will have playback interruptions all the time, which is even mor annoying. Also note that quite a lot of newer soundcards (among them intel HDA) have seperate crystals for playback and recording which are not synchronised. (traditionally duplex soundcards used the same xtal for input and output. This seems no longer be true) YMMV. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
