[PlanetCCRMA] sndlib and alsa api

Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen k.s.matheussen@notam02.no
Mon Dec 22 08:41:02 2003


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Juan Reyes wrote:

>
> > I wrote this code, and I know about the problem. Its not sndlib that
> > writes the messages, its the jack library. Freqtweak has the same problem
> > if you try to start it without running the jack server.
> > I did post a patch to the jack development list long time
> > ago with a function to solve the problem, but it doesnt' seem to
> > have been accepted.
> >
> >
> Kjetil,
>
> Thank you for your response (this is understandable) and of course lots
> of thanks for the port and efforts for making SND better. I find very
> useful the jack-SND interface because as far as I have tried, latency is
> better and fewer dropout errors. This was a big issue on long soundfiles
> before, not only in real time situations but also in transfers to
> multitrack tapes and synchronization. I guess for the time being we just
> need to start jack before a xemacs-clm session which is not a big issue
> unless we are working with different sampling rates as in the jack
> process.
>

In the meantime, I have earlier thie day sent workaround code for the
jacklib printing problem to Bill Schottstaedt, so the problem wont last
forever.


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