Ubuntu as a gaming platform: audio latency

Registered by David Planella

Audio latency is relatively high on Linux and we need to be competitive with other platforms.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
Jason Warner
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Luke Yelavich
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Luke Yelavich
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for raring
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None

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Sprints

Whiteboard

Note: the people in the audience have not had problems with the audio latency and find it to be working just fine.
On the previous audio gaming session, 16 ms (one 60 Hz frame) was a reasonable target to aim for w r t latency.

[nobody-signed-up-for-this-one] Investigate if there are (open source) apps that are failing at syncing audio/video: TODO

See http://arunraghavan.net/2012/11/pulseconf-2012-report/ for the notes about "low latency" on the PulseAudio miniconference.

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Work Items

Work items:
[diwic] Discuss low latency audio at pulse mini conference: DONE
[scottritchie] Investigate adding pulse latency test to the automated game fps measurement testing: TODO
[scottritchie] Demo hda-jack-retask and investigate working it into the sound settings: TODO
[scottritchie] Ask mlaankhorst about wine audio latency tests as an automated thing we could do: TODO

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