Re: [alsa-devel] nvidia initial sound being skipped

David Shirley wrote:

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I am using an nvidia MCP78 to connect to a Denon 1910 AVR via HDMI.

I was using Kernel 2.6.32.21 and noticed that the initial few seconds of my songs was being chopped off.

I just want to say I upgraded to kernel 2.6.36 today and still miss the first 0.5seconds or so of the sound output. ... both HDMI and SPDIF exhibit the same problem.

Apparently, your receiver needs even more time to detect that some sound is playing; there's nothing that the computer could do about it.

Try playing some silence before starting playing music. (This requires a software mixer like dmix or PulseAudio.)

Regards, Clemens