Dear List,
Using SALSA-Lib 0.0.3, I call:
snd_pcm_open (&playback_handle, argv[1], SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0); snd_pcm_hw_params_malloc (&hw_params); snd_pcm_hw_params_any (playback_handle, hw_params); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (playback_handle, hw_params, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format (playback_handle, hw_params, SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE)); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near (playback_handle, hw_params, 44100, 0); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels (playback_handle, hw_params, 2); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_last (playback_handle, hw_params, &bfrsize); snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size (hw_params, &bfrsize); snd_pcm_hw_params (playback_handle, hw_params); snd_pcm_hw_params_free (hw_params); snd_pcm_sw_params_malloc (&sw_params); snd_pcm_sw_params_current (playback_handle, sw_params); snd_pcm_sw_params_set_avail_min (playback_handle, sw_params, 4096); snd_pcm_sw_params_set_start_threshold (playback_handle, sw_params, 10000U); snd_pcm_sw_params_set_xfer_align (playback_handle, sw_params, 1); snd_pcm_sw_params (playback_handle, sw_params); state = snd_pcm_state (playback_handle); frames_to_deliver = snd_pcm_avail_update (playback_handle);
while ((frames_to_deliver = snd_pcm_avail_update (playback_handle)) > 4096) { snd_pcm_writei (playback_handle, &buf, 4096) }
As soon as the buffer start threshold is reached, or alternatively if I manually start PCM stream, the PCM stream reports an overrun (i.e. "Broken Pipe"). If I then examine the PCM state, it is in the overrun (XRUN) state.
The code is being cross-compiled and tested on an ARM processor (PXA270) which is running linux kernel 2.6.21. This same code sequence -does- operate properly (in the same ARM test environment) when compiled against AlsaLib 1.0.13.
Another apparent (and perhaps relevent) difference between AlsaLib and SALSA-Lib is that if I open the PCM stream with O_NONBLOCK and then call snd_pcm_poll_descriptors, AlsaLib gives me a FD = 4, whereas SALSA-Lib reports an FD = 3;
Thanks, Scott.