Hi.
I'm trying to debug a problem with xruns which happen when playing a wav file with vlc, but I can't reproduce the problems when using "aplay -M" to play the same wav file. (logged as https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3031).
I've checked the contents of /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/ in both cases - they appear to be very similar except for the contents of sw_params: when I use vlc, start_threshold says 1, but when I use "aplay -M", start_threshold says 16384.
So, what does start_threshold mean, is there a particular value that start_threshold "should" contain, and could this difference be the cause of the xruns? (The aplay man page doesn't seem to have any flags for controlling the value of this parameter, so it doesn't appear to be "user-configurable").
(Apologies if this is the wrong mailing list - I though that -devel would be better than -user, but I could be wrong).
Thanks,
Jaime