6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
3:47 p.m.
Takashi Iwai wrote:
removing the hack there. Maybe not. But, I feel it's a barren discussion. It's really a design problem. Sigh.
Are any steps being taken to change the design so that sample rate conversion works better? The options are: 1) get the sound card hardware to produce time based interrupts for the rate plugin to use as it's period trigger. This is how the old OSS drivers did it. 2) allow the user application to use different buffer/period sizes than the hardware itself. 3) Try to encourage applications not to use the pcm_rate plugin at all!!! Instead force each application to do its own sample rate conversion to match what the hardware can do.
I favor option (3) myself.
James