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kusti8 / hue-plus

A Windows and Linux driver in Python for the NZXT Hue+
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Audio mode low sample rate, latency #18

Open thundr opened 6 years ago

thundr commented 6 years ago

Was hoping that this project would have better audio support than CAM, but the audio mode retains the laggy mess of CAM control. Any hope of a fix?

EDIT: Adding that this is on Windows 7

kusti8 commented 6 years ago

It works perfectly fine for me and also on CAM. I would try changing the rate to something lower. Can you take a video or something? I don't exactly understand what the problem is here.

thundr commented 6 years ago

I'll try to describe the problem, one that many, many people have had in the past with CAM as I've seen on the NZXT subreddit and other posts.

The audio mode has a latency effect of 1-2 seconds from the actual audio source. Furthermore, the refresh rate seems incredibly sluggish at only a couple times a second. The result has basically nothing in common with the audio it's working with. It seems weird to me, cause FFTs with LEDs are probably one of the most commonly completed projects for these types of things.

I guess I should also establish what "perfectly fine" is, since everywhere I've read, it seems pretty universal that the audio mode is non-functional, at least in CAM. I remember one post saying there's only one video on youtube with the software working properly.

If it looks great on your end, it could be something like the fact that my audio interface uses proprietary drivers, or some other issue. I'll give the code a look.

Alienmoon commented 6 years ago

@thundR agreed, this is the only reason I don't use the audio, It just seems out of time.

kusti8 commented 6 years ago

Ok I'll look into it. Did you try lowering the smoothness?