[Wolves] kernel suitable for multimedia?

[Simon Fielding]

If you are going to install to a spare drive, you
might want to try FC5 and then the low latency kernel
and apps from Planet CCRMA
(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/). 
I've been playing with this a bit recently and it all
seems to hang together quite well although you do need
to decide what it is you want to do before you start
installing software as there is a lot of it.

Simon

--- Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Ad
> 
> thanks for the explanation and pointers, I'll check
> them out.
> 
> I am going to try and use my spare removable hard
> drive to install Ubuntu and see how it works with
> the hardware I have.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mo
> 
> Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote: -
> Hmm... It gets murky in these waters. I don't think
> that your kernel will be the cause of the problems
> with the soft synth. I don't know what that problem
> could be. Kernel issues related to sound are down to
> the fact that most kernels have an audio latency
> problems. This means that you record something and
> it
> plays back a few milliseconds out of synch with what
> you recorded along  to. Another problem is what are
> called xruns and there are 2 types:
> 
> 1) A buffer underrun happens during playback, when
> your sound card tries to read data from the buffer,
> but your software has not yet filled it.
> 2) A buffer overruns happens during recording, when
> your sound card tries to write data to buffer, but
> your software has not yet emptied it.
> 
> Neither of which are good news, they lead to gaps in
> your audio.
> 
> The remedy for this is to build a kernel that
> contains
> real-time pre-emption patches, which is non-trivial
> if
> you've never done it before. However as I said, this
> isn't likely to be your problem at this stage. I've
> only just started dipping my toes into the water
> with
> Linux audio recording and I don't know a great deal
> yet.
> 
> However, a very good website is
> http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki despite being Ubuntu
> specific, should help guide you in the right way and
> looks like it explains sound fonts.
> 
> I can't help explain why some of your apps don't
> work
> I'm afraid. Myabe launch them on the comand line and
> see what kind of output they produce when you do
> what
> won't work for you.
> 
> Ad
> 
> -- 
> 
> http://www.drinky.org.uk
> 
> http://blog.adamsweet.org
> 
> 
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