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Question on Audio Built-in driver on latest Powerbook G4
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Question on Audio Built-in driver on latest Powerbook G4


  • Subject: Question on Audio Built-in driver on latest Powerbook G4
  • From: Stéphane Letz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:51:40 +0100

Hi,

I'm testing our code on the latest Powerbook G4 1.67 / 512 Mo (OSX 10.4.3) and see some strange behaviour in the built-in audio driver:

- the driver does not work reliably with buffers of 64 frames: it triggers regular kAudioDeviceProcessorOverload. This behaviour is also seen using the MillionMonkeys test application and other coreaudio applications. The same machine using the MOTU 828 FireWire driver doe not shows the problem: it works OK at 64 frames and even 32 frames.

- running our code at 128 frames, our process consume something like 13% CPU. Using Shark to profile the code, it appears that the Built- in driver consume a lot of time in AppleDBDMAAudio::clipOutputSample and IOAudioStream::readInputSamples and in particular in functions like "eqalizer, bassEnhance, and dynamicRangeControl". Moreover these functions seems not to be Altivec accelerated. What is the purpose of these functions and why are they consuming so much CPU?

Thanks

Stephane Letz
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