David Henningsson wrote: > So, PulseAudio removed timer scheduling for drivers with > SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH, and released 5.0. Meanwhile, USB drivers still > have SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH, so this leads to performance regressions for > USB sound cards. > > The question remains - what does SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH really mean? For your purposes, it means that the pointer accuracy is likely to be worse than that of other sound cards. There should be a mechanism to report the actual granularity. Regards, Clemens