Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity recording

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Monty wrote:
>>b) it may need special privileges (that's fair for a dedicated Audio
>>Workstation, but Audacity should at least be able to record, say, 44
>>kHz, Stereo on a fairly recent computer without needing root priviliges)
> 
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, but unfortunately (at least
> in Linux) you won't acheive this without at least initial setuid root
> privileges. The app can always drop what privileges it doesn't need
> (and yes, I know firsthand just what a royal PITA setting this up is).

For real-time work, yes, but for simple recording, it shouldn't
be necessary to mess with priveleges at all.

Audacity uses 5-second buffers.  You don't need real-time scheduling
to handle things at that timescale.

On both Linux and Mac OS X, I don't have any problems recording with
the latest versions of Audacity.  I'm very curious about under what
circumstances people are still having dropout problems.

- Domini