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Re: sound
You might want to try polling the SB16 in RealTime, using RTlinux.
(see link from linux-il library).
It will slow down your whole linux while polling, but will sample the file
correctly.
However, this means you will have to do some porting unless someone
already did this for the SB16.
Yoav
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anybody could help me on this:
>
> I wanted to record sound at CD quality (44100hz Stereo 16 bit),
> I'm using SB16PnP.
>
> The problem is that my linux box does not keep the pace and it records
> the sounds while skipping some parts of it, which is very anoying.
>
> I know my linux-box is only a i486DX2/66 with 8 Megs of RAM, but
> i think that asking to write to disk at CDx1 speed (176Kb/sec) is
> reasnable.
>
> I tryed running at single user mode ( the only processes running were
> 'init' and my recording util)
> I tryed running with/without swap.
>
> none of the above helped
>
> is the problem my 'old' cpu (I dont think so ! )
> is it the sound driver ( I'm using wavrec of the wavplay-1.0p2-2 package
> )
> is the problem the sound driver in the kernel ( I'm usning linux 2.0.30
> )
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Regards
> Erez.
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References:
- sound
- From: Erez Doron <erez@black.scorpio.com>