Re: GNOME 2 Sound Architecture and APIs?

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

arts (and most other sound daemons I've seen) have latency problems, and
no good way to do out of order delivery of sound....

We got this right in AF: unfortunately, it has other problems (does not
handle sample rate conversion).  AF, on proper hardware, allowed updating
samples until the sample was played (anotherwords, had potentially 0 latency).

I had a nice conversation at GUADEC with the arts folks over this issue.

So right now, there ain't no such thing as a good sound daemon.

Sigh.
				- Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg pa dec com