[pulseaudio-discuss] please explain me this recommendation

[Arun Raghavan]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:40 +0200, Claude Frantz wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> In many places, I have found the recommendation to set
> 
> default-framents = 8
> default-fragment-size-msec = 5
> 
> in daemon.conf when using "old" software. Please explain me why.
> Are there drawbacks when using more "modern" software ? Many thanks,

In recent version, and by default, PulseAudio will dynamically adjust
these values based on the latency requirements of the clients that are
connected.

Cheers,
Arun