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From: "Richard W.E. Furse" <richard@muse.demon.co.uk>
To: "Jaroslav Kysela (E-mail)" <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: RE: Requirements?
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All sounds great--a lot of thought seems to have gone into this driver.

I can see there could be some interesting complications if my AWE32 was 
playing back at 44101Hz and my Fiji at 44100. Could drop or interpolate a 
sample to resynchronise. (Hmm George Robertson, a friend of mine, did a 
research paper on similar issues for audio over ATM. I'll see if I can dig 
it out--it may even be on the web somewhere.)

The fragment size, watermark etc figures at the end of the document make 
interesting reading--it sounds as if the information I'm after will be 
available from the API which is great news for me. Fingers crossed for the 
same support for MIDI...

I usually work with 20ms as the point at which events start to sound 
disconnected. Would it be possible to drop the fragment size say to 1024 or 
even 512 bytes? I suspect this might present difficulties for Linux's 
multitasking strategy.

Thanks,

-- Richard

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