[PD] low latency

guenter geiger geiger at xdv.org
Tue Sep 16 23:55:23 CEST 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, hellekin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:32:43PM +0200, derek holzer wrote:
> > hellekin,
> >
> > what do your other ALSA apps do? can you run Alsaplayer, etc without
> > problems?
> >
> *** Yes : alsaplayer runs fine. On the othe hand, alsa-xmms ticks.
> pd in oss mode functions perfectly. I think I have to recompile my
> alsa-driver.

There is no need to do that. If the oss mode works then use oss mode.
The way things stand with pd and alsa, you get better performance
with the oss layer in ALSA than with the libasound layer.

We are still very weak on the ALSA side ... :(

Guenter






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