Hi, I have the stereo driver working on my system. If I try playing wave files with aplay everything works just fine. The problem shows up when I try playing movies through gstreamer. When I play the movie (I have 2 decoders , many movies and they all behave the same) the sound comes choppy. If I add following change in the pcm_lib.c file snd_pcm_lib_write1 method.: if ((err = transfer(substream, appl_ofs, data, offset, frames)) < 0) //NO CHANGE goto _end; //NO CHANGE //THIS IS THE LINE I ADDED THAT INVALIDATES CACHE SO DMA IS 100% CORRECT dma_sync_single_range_for_device(0, runtime->dma_buffer_p->addr , 0, runtime->dma_buffer_p->bytes, DMA_TO_DEVICE); I must say that memory allocation in my driver is done through snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all and I am not sure why would data be stuck in cache, so I cannot explain why this line makes the difference.
Now if I play just sound part in the gstreamer like this:
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=MY_MOVIE.mp4 ! qtdemux name=t ! queue ! faad ! alsasink
the sound plays just fine.
Also, if I play just video part it plays just fine. But if I play audio and video together like this: gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=MY_MOVIE.mp4 ! qtdemux name=t ! queue ! my_decoder ! my_video_sink t. ! queue ! faad ! alsasink
the whole clip plays much faster (if video is 36 seconds long now it will last 25 seconds. Of course video and audio skip a lot). Does anyone have an idea where can I even start looking for a problem? Cheers, Ogi