At Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:35:18 -0700, Shane W wrote:

Hi,

It's a known issue that Intel HDMI audio loses the first half second or so of audio when opening the device. Using the dmix interface, I've been able to get around that by writing a quick app to hold the device open so the HDMI stays live. However, with the recent asound.conf posted here which uses the route plugin to fix the multichannel order, I can't do that as dmix isn't in the picture. I'd rather not use dmix anyway since it can bugger with the sample rate so I am wondering if there's another way to get around this.

It's possible to combine with dmix. You set up dmix with 8 channels, put route plugin over it.

Takashi