I'm glad you have a solution, but won't this create even higher latency due to dmix? Many sound cards do not support hardware mixing, or support a limited range of rates, so dmix will be processor intensive. For example, my STAC9750,51 only supports 48000Hz natively (and dmix/pulseaudio downsamples to 44100 by default, I think).
Hi Daniel,
I'm glad you have a solution, but won't this create even higher latency due to dmix? Many sound cards do not support hardware mixing, or support a limited range of rates, so dmix will be processor intensive. For example, my STAC9750,51 only supports 48000Hz natively (and dmix/pulseaudio downsamples to 44100 by default, I think).