[arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:07 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > [4]
> > 
> > You can't apply a soundcard mixer gain change at some exact
> > point in a sample stream. So you can't change the master
> > gain and change your internal scaling to compensate at
> > exactly the same time. There will always be a glitch.
> 
> That's the important point. And because look ahead for a realtime
> livestream is impossible without a time machine, you need to lower the
> level with a guess about the needed headroom, before you increase the
> other level, assumed we are near at margin of full scale.

Or is it possible for software to be that fast, that it doesn't matter?
Perhaps a look ahead is possible?