Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> > In ESD, as far as I can tell, and as the authors told me, there isn't
> > a way to minimize the buffer to, say, 1 second of audio.  Instead, you
> > have to wait for the network socket to block, which might hold
> > *several* seconds of data. 
> 
> There is no perceptible delay. For example, when I call esdplay with any
> audio file it plays immediately, whether the file is short or long. Also
> you have all sorts of UI sounds in Gnome which also start up immediately.
> 

Like I said, esdplay is irrelevant to what I was asking.

Ultimately I'd like to test it myself, but that requires getting it to
work at all on my machine.  :|


-Lex