Re: Possible modifications to interface

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Sebastien Valette
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jack O'Quin a écrit :
>>
>> My initial reaction is that a mastering tool like Jamin is mainly a
>> hands-on interactive session.  Running it in the background as a
>> daemon seems pointless for its primary intended use.  Other uses may
>> appear over time, of course.
>>
>
> Well, I know that closed-source drivers do suck, but in my case, I have an
> issue when exporting songs with ardour with Jamin as a plugin. Using the
> closed-source fglrx driver, the sound is awfully distorded while when using
> the open-source (and much slower du to new hardware not being properly
> handled) the sound is OK. Perhaps separating the UI and the processing would
> solve this case?

The audio processing already runs in real-time threads, which *should*
be immune to interference from graphics software.  Putting them in a
separate address space would not help any with that.

If the graphics *hardware* is locking out the I/O bus for long
periods, then it's not going to work properly no matter what we do in
software.
-- 
 joq

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