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Document DirectSound capture granularity
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dechamps committed Jun 15, 2024
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One would expect latency to be somewhat better than MME, though it's not clear
if that's really the case in practice. The DirectSound backend has been observed
to [behave very poorly][issue29] with small buffer sizes on the input side,
where it appears to enforce an effective minimum buffer size of 31.25 ms,
making it a poor choice for low-latency capture use cases.

The DirectSound backend exposes "virtual" devices called *"Primary Sound Capture
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