[Openal-devel] Default buffer size

Lukasz Pawelczyk havner at pld-linux.org
Sun Oct 12 05:20:48 PDT 2008


Chris Robinson wrote:
>> Anyway, is there anything that can be done?
>
> Try setting the periods value to 3 or 4. In ~/.alsoftrc:
> [alsa]
> periods = 4

Doesn't make noticable difference.

> Beyond that, I'm not sure. The only other thing I can think to do is to
> improve the mixing loop so it won't have as much trouble keeping up with low
> buffer sizes.

If that is possible all I can hope is that you will take a look at it at 
some point :-)

And you were right about windows. Turn off HW acceleration and the delay 
appears. Somewhere about 8192 level, maybe even a little bit more.

Thanks for your help. I'll have to live with 2048 and hope there wont be 
much statics.


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