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Switched from setting the period size and count to setting the buffer size directly, based on feedback from the ALSA development list: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-October/022267.html This has the nice side effect of reducing latency on my SBLive! card.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:56:15 +0000
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