Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Benji Weber <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/2/24 Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> It does not break hardware mixing - if you had hardware mixing, you would not
> notice any problems. It avoids using the alsa lib software mixing (dmix),
> which is a good thing in general, as this would introduce additional latency.
> PA is much more capable as dmix is. dmix uses a fixed buffer size, meaning
> constant latency, whereas PAs "buffer rewriting"/glitch-free gives you short
> latency when you need it combined with low overhead for simple playback of
> stuff like mp3s or video.

Nope it works too without dmix, and before dmix was available. It's
just pulseaudio that breaks it.

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Benjamin Weber
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