Re: Help needed in rec.audio.pro

From: Linønut (linønut_at_bone.com)
Date: 06/03/05 

Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:50:54 -0500

George Jones IV poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

>> Latency is also an issue with audio cards (if they're supported
>> by ALSA)
>>
>> Numbers please...
>
> How about 300-400ms using a shitty Audigy or SBLive under Linux (with ALSA),
> but being able to get 20ms with the same card under 2000 or XP using
> Creative's drivers (7-11ms if I use the KX Project drivers)

How about you are full of ***?

   http://old.lwn.net/1999/0916/a/latency.html

   "Seems that we are now able to outperform most of the other OSes in
   terms of timing precision/ latency ( multimedia loves this) :-)

   In future, we will probably not need RT-Linux to deliver realtime
   audio on Linux. (As processors get faster , jitter will go down)"

And here is where he gets his numbers:

   http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/audio3x128-cpu80/3x128.html

That is in 1999, mind you, before the low-latency support in the latest
Linux kernel.

So, unless you have some recent, up-to-date and accurate, and contrary
numbers, I would have to say you are full of ***. 

-- 
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.