Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:48:35 +0200 (EET) | From | Hannu Savolainen <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity |
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, John Rigg wrote:
> Yes, but the CPU has plenty of other work to do. The sound cards that > would be worst affected by this are the big RME cards (non-interleaved) and > multiple ice1712 cards (non-interleaved blocks of interleaved data), ice1712 uses normal interleaving. There are no "non-interleaved blocks".
> which AFAIK are the only cards capable of handling serious professional audio. > This could represent 48 or more channels of 96kHz audio, which > doesn't leave a lot of spare CPU capacity for running X, for example.
This is true only if you run the system at full 100% load before the conversions. But in real life you cannot do this anyway. You have to use a CPU that has lot of spare power. Otherwise anything unpredictable will make things to fail.
Best regards,
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