Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>(I'll note that on my SMP machine, I'm running MP3 decoders much of the
>time, and in practice very rarely hear any dropouts.  So the folks who

That's because you can use buffering while playing mp3. The latency
problem arises insted when your app can't buffer anything because by the
time you get the input you have only a few msec before the time you have
to playback.

Andrea