2012-01-22
2012-01-22
Zero Percent Game Dev - So a Jack, a Pulseaudio, an Esound, an OSS, and an Alsa walk into a bar
The enduser dies. I am so tired of seeing xruns and Jack's "cannot start in realtime" error. An xrun is a buffer overrun on a layer of sound processing. At best it sounds like a quarter-second gap in the track, at worst a loud chirp. Super not okay for broadcasting, recording podcasts, or even listening to music. I wanted to listen to music while coding, so I spent most of the day in frustration at my computer.