From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 19 09:29:24 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6297AC31411 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:29:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 385B172EB3 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:29:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1500456563; x=1503048563; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wYNEMYdbVjJz1s/y6hCCm8wv0jnfAA4ZZCfpKp6Nx3I=; b=ZpevnAAMcyOTazfsnzToW0pBrUytF4jYqsE+vMjdGSJ5+Iq9xwhjW11iDfrNC3TYi04sIprWgKF1yq9dUwoztAjLVcLWH4av2Frxf2qRCTXXFs7/Dc8NEw4TqQacawXB1oyq0g/WV3C5ak2tDxIpK4solgxGNaxOaoVzE5kC/LM= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi5kOTAwMDAwMDIyODAyOS5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r1.h.in.socketlabs.com (r1.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.11]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 05:29:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r1.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 05:29:09 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1dXlJ0-000Lpd-HY; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:30:06 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:28:54 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-Id: <20170719102854.041ac2e3a3d3faecae676993@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20170719094122.3541b41c@archlinux.localdomain> References: <1500440247.5678.8.camel@rocketmail.com> <20170719094122.3541b41c@archlinux.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:29:24 -0000 On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:41:22 +0200 Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > Professional real-time audio doesn't work at all. Is that due to lack of support for the APIs normally used or because the underlying sound system is not good enough ? I certainly had no problems with sound system latency way back when I was getting the brooktree video capture cards to work properly (there were sync detection bugs) and talk to ffmpeg - that was nearly 20 years ago, I'd like to think things have got better not worse :) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith