Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:47:47 +0300 From: Heikki Lindholm <holin@iki.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <df4d410f-50ca-5256-f2ba-902ae2cbb842@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20170719102854.041ac2e3a3d3faecae676993@sohara.org> References: <CAN7_dzeDRZvH_wqZFmq6vxC%2BAdxwc-inuV8BVVmevs0xVbTpag@mail.gmail.com> <1500440247.5678.8.camel@rocketmail.com> <CALeGphxRwZpsHxmCaSjqo_3onQaM9%2ByoatqSFzJCWa_FS8gZDQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170719094122.3541b41c@archlinux.localdomain> <20170719102854.041ac2e3a3d3faecae676993@sohara.org>
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On 19.07.2017 12:28, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:41:22 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Professional real-time audio doesn't work at all. > > Is that due to lack of support for the APIs normally used or > because the underlying sound system is not good enough ? > > I certainly had no problems with sound system latency way back when > I was getting the brooktree video capture cards to work properly (there > were sync detection bugs) and talk to ffmpeg - that was nearly 20 years > ago, I'd like to think things have got better not worse :) Latency is just one aspect. Hardware timestamping, callbacks, low-level access to device data without kernel conversions and synchronization aids is what pro audio likes. IMHO, no open source OS has a good (pro) audio API, but the development has centered on Linux and ALSA w/jack is already workable.
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