[PD] glitches when streaming UDP

[Pagano, Patrick]

I just went through this ordeal with an MboxPro3 and ubuntu/LowLatency Kernel

the answer for me was using a FW soundcard and Cadence from KxStudios. It solved the under/overrun problem




Patrick Pagano B.S, M.F.A

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Digital Media & Design

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University of Connecticut, Stamford

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Subject: Re: [PD] glitches when streaming UDP

If you're using jack, is the jack server running without dropouts with other software? I'm only suggesting to consider sources other than Pd as well.

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On Die, 2018-01-30 at 16:38 +0100, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Is it running with the *same* OS and settings?

As far as I can tell: yes. Same OS (Ubuntu 16.04), same Kernel (4.13.0-
32-lowlatency), both tuned so that "realtimeconfigquickscan" doesn't
complain anymore. This includes configuring /etc/security/limits.conf,
adding user to audio group, making high-precision timer /dev/hpet und
realtime clock /dev/rtc readable by members of audio group, etc. I get
stable performance with Ardour with the same qjackctl settings, with
built-in soundcard, but also with external USB sound interface on BOTH
machines.

It might be a scheduling issue with the kernel, realtime settings,
crappy networking driver, etc.

I thought about that, too. But why does it affect only Pd? On the
"troubled" machine - where everything else runs supersmooth - this
setup suffers a couple of glitches per second (jack routing):

mpv -> Pd running [adc~]-[dac~] -> system output

The probable causes you mentioned would affect other audio softwares,
too, wouldn't they?

The Pd version doesn't seem to make a difference...

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts.

Roman

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