Re: Bug report: strange crash

Joel Roth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.ecasound.general
Message-ID <20120412065448.GB6468@sprite>
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:05PM +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Joel Roth wrote:
> 
> > I note that ecasound-iam(1) for my version of Ecasound (2.8.1)
> > does not list cop-add and cop-remove as non-realtime (see
> > quoted text below).
> [...]
> >       trol  objects that belong to a connected chainsetup. Commands that do NOT
> >       support this are:
> 
> ... note the "NOT" in the man page text above. :) So the list in the man 
> page is a blacklist, i.e. the listed commands (like cop-remove) are _not_ 
> real-time safe.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.  My point is that cop-remove is
*not* listed in the blacklist, at least in the man page for 
my installed Ecasound  (2.8.1).

> > Perhaps there are others as well? For example, I know
> > that Nama needs to wrap cs-set-position in a stop/start
> > when running Ecasound under JACK.
> 
> That's a different thing. In JACK, reposition during playback,
> and repositioning while stopped, are two different operations. With
> Ecasound+JACK, result of 'cs-set-position' will be different based on
> whether the engine is running or not.
> 
> In practical terms, slow clients (clients like ecasound that need to do 
> disk i/o), may not be able to catch up immediately to the new position to 
> the new location (and you miss some audio on those JACK inputs). In 
> multitrack recording type of use, you will usually want to reposition 
> while stopped to make sure all clients are ready to play.

Thanks for clarifying. Nama is a bit like an awkward dancer,
still learning how *not* to step his partner's (Ecasound's)
feet. :-)

Regards,

Joel


-- 
Joel Roth

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