Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction

With the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, the USB sound driver will ideally exhibit lower latency when starting playback...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.14-USB-Audio-Latency

[kiffmet]

I am using a Soundblaster Zx (CA0132), which is fully working, including all the proprietary DSP features and 5.1 surround and occasionally an AptX enabled Bluetooth headset. I've had zero issues so far. Gentoo amd64, Pulseaudio 13.0, Kernel 5.12 series

[lucrus]

I am using a Soundblaster Zx (CA0132), which is fully working, including all the proprietary DSP features and 5.1 surround and occasionally an AptX enabled Bluetooth headset. I've had zero issues so far. Gentoo amd64, Pulseaudio 13.0, Kernel 5.12 series

What is this supposed to show?

[ix900]

What is this supposed to show?

I guess it shows that somehow one person actually managed to not have a single audio issue or so they think?

[torsionbar28]

What is this supposed to show?

I think that someone actually bought into the Sound Blaster hype, lol!

[Veto]

I guess it shows that somehow one person actually managed to not have a single audio issue or so they think?

Yeah, sometimes the silent majority dares to post a positive confirmation that stuff actually works - to great frustration for the angry vocal minority

[pkunk]

Just measured roundtrip with pipewire as a sound server on my USB DAC it a is 70ms and on build-in sound card 45ms. Need to compare after the patch.
Upd: Actually excluding pipewire default buffers it would be ~26ms and ~2ms correspondingly. Which is probably a big deal for Osu! players.

[tildearrow]

I am using a Soundblaster Zx (CA0132), which is fully working, including all the proprietary DSP features and 5.1 surround and occasionally an AptX enabled Bluetooth headset. I've had zero issues so far. Gentoo amd64, Pulseaudio 13.0, Kernel 5.12 series

How come?!
Try using JACK on it. It will be impossible.

[jntesteves]

How come?!
Try using JACK on it. It will be impossible.

Okay... but why would you use JACK on such hardware?

[obri]

I use a Soundblaster X G5 on USB. The volume and correct input is not remembered by the system.
So I wrote a little python script to do this for me.