On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:26:44PM +0530, Aggarwal, Anuj wrote:
driver, although I am not sure if the problem is in the audio driver. When tried to capture, using NFS as storage, it gives overrun error and comes out with: arecord: pcm_read:1617: read error: Input/output error
It happen always after ~20 sec, file size ~5MB. Tried with multiple configurations in arecord but no use. When tried: arecord -f cd /dev/null, it works fine. Same issue doesn't come too when I try to store the captured audio file on a MMC card.
Any idea what could be the problem? Why arecord goes for a toss after a single overrun error and why it is happening always after ~20 sec? Is there something which can be tried to narrow down the problem?
Sounds like you've narrowed the problem down to a performance issue with NFS writeout - it's probably having trouble keeping up with your I/O rate. This isn't 100% surprising with smaller systems, sometimes tuning the NFS configuration can resolve the issue but sometimes the hardware is just underspecified.
arecord is a pretty basic program and doesn't try terribly hard to recover from errors.