Re: [xine-user] plughw:1,0

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

Trying again. Please excuse my boldness...

- Mark

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 08:09, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    Question - does the fact that I have to use plughw:1,0 to talk to my
> RME HDSP 9652 mean that xine is making assumptions about what packet
> sizes a sound card can accept?
> 
>    It's been my understanding with a couple of other newer Alsa
> applications that when an app doesn't query to determine what size
> packet a sound card wants given to it that the user can get around this
> limitation using the plughw device. (Whatever that is....I don't
> know...)
> 
>    Anyway, since I have to use plughw with xine, does this mean xine is
> not using the required 2 period size that the RME requires?
> 
>    If so, is this effecting sound quality or processor overhead at all?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>