Hello, I have an issue to reduce playback/capture audio latency for AIC3106. Now I'm using following strategy for initial of alsa backend driver in user level application:

snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_size(...,frame_size,...); snd_pcm_hw_params_set_periods_min(...,&periodsp,...); if(periodsp< user_nperiods) periodsp = user_nperiods snd_pcm_hw_params_set_periods_near(....,&periodsp,...); snd_pcm_hw_set_buffer_size(...,frame_size*periodsp,....); [...] snd_pcm_sw_params_set_start_threshold(..., 0U); snd_pcm_sw_params_set_stop_threshold(..., frame_size*periodsp); if(playback) { availmin=frame_size*(periodsp-user_nperiods+1);

}else { availmin=frame_size; } snd_pcm_sw_params_set_avail_min(...,availmin) [...]

On far end I hear an echo with delay about 1 second, I definitely know that it is a playback/capture (acoustic echo), and delay is too much for any AEC because of (as I think) low latency in alsa driver or misunderstanding how it should be initialized. I already exclude other delays (jitter delay, network delay)

My initial parameters: frame_size = 640, rate = 16000, user_nperiods = 2, but after calling snd_pcm_hw_params_set_periods_min I got minimum periodsp = 16. For these parameter buffer (16 buffers 40ms each) total length of buffer is 0.64 sec.

My question is how could I reduce this latency? May be some improvements which allow me to set up less then 16 buffers, or I did wrong initialization or is there any another internal buffer which make such long delay for echo?

Cheers, Tim Karaldin