At Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:41:21 +0200, Andreas Rumpler wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to this list.I hope someone could help me with a problem concerning the samplerate converter plugins of the alsa driver.
Firstly some facts about my application.
- Envy24 (VT1270) pci audio chip on a custom mainboard
- playback of sounds/music with different sample rates from 8kHz to
48kHz (sample rate of the files)
- the hardware (Envy24 chip) must always run with 44.1kHz or 48kHz
(selectable by user), because the audio is outputed by a DAC and SPDIF and the SPDIF clock must not be changed according to the sample rate of the files.
- Kernel is 2.6.22 and alsa is 1.0.14
So I'm using the samplerate (libsample rate based) plugin from the alsa-plugin package. Generaly it works very good.
My problem is: Every time a playback is started a short plop noise is heard. The noise is on analog and SPDIF output. If I don't use the samplerate converter the noise is not heard at all. So it comes definitely from the rate converter plugin, I think. Changing the quality level of the plugin don't solve the problem.
Could you try the patch below for alsa-plugins?
I've also switched to the new Speex rate converter plugin. With this plugin there is no noise at the start of playback. But here I have trouble with awful noise at some rate conversions (6kHz(source) -> 48kHz(output); 11.025kHz -> 44.1kHz; 22.05kHz -> 44.1kHz). So it's even worse than using the libsamplerate plugin. Finaly I've tried the libavcodec plugin, which is the worst according to noise.
I can confirm the noise (like flanger effect) at 11025 -> 44100 conversion, too, but no at others. Since 11024 -> 44100 works fine, it appears specific to quater or so.
Takashi
diff -r 83b528a8ca2e rate/rate_samplerate.c --- a/rate/rate_samplerate.c Mon Jun 04 15:23:44 2007 +0200 +++ b/rate/rate_samplerate.c Thu Jul 12 15:36:38 2007 +0200 @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ static void pcm_src_convert_s16(void *ob const int16_t *src, unsigned int src_frames) { struct rate_src *rate = obj; + unsigned int ofs;
rate->data.input_frames = src_frames; rate->data.output_frames = dst_frames; @@ -123,7 +124,12 @@ static void pcm_src_convert_s16(void *ob src_short_to_float_array(src, rate->src_buf, src_frames * rate->channels); src_process(rate->state, &rate->data); - src_float_to_short_array(rate->dst_buf, dst, dst_frames * rate->channels); + if (rate->data.output_frames_gen < dst_frames) + ofs = dst_frames - rate->data.output_frames_gen; + else + ofs = 0; + src_float_to_short_array(rate->dst_buf, dst + ofs * rate->channels, + rate->data.output_frames_gen * rate->channels); }
static void pcm_src_close(void *obj)