[alsa-devel] unable to do simultaneous playback and recording

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:05:10 -0700 (PDT),
prashant chopade wrote:
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> Hello,
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> We using linux-2.6.27 on target board-AT91SAM9263EK.
>  We are using ALSA library utilities (aplay &
> arecord). But by using these utilities we can’t do simultaneous playback and
> recording.
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> We performed following activity to come to this conclusion:
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> //At the background we were recording
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> #arecord –f cd record_test_file &
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> //At the forefront we were playing pre-recorded audio file
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> #aplay –f cd pre_recorded_file
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> Our observation is that, recording stops when start playing
> file.

In the API side, the above should work fine.  It must be the driver 
that doesn't work with full-duplex.


Takashi