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M-.-n wrote:

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> Hi guys,

>

> I'm trying to get my audio driver working with ALSA but there's the issue of

> defining the buffer size and period that I can't seem to figure out really.

> I've tryed to google for some good definition of what they represent and how

> they should be used with respect to the asynchroneous callback but couldn't

> find too much that would help.

use jack :) then you don't have to care about that.

iiuc, the buffer size is in samples, and period defines how many buffers

are used - i guess this is per hardware interrupt, but i may be wrong.
high-end cards can do bufsize=32 and p=2. most cards should be able to

easily do 512/3. if latency is not an issue, you can use 4096/3 to save

cycles.
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