[alsa-devel] dmix and sounds less than 64kb

[Aaron "Caustik" Robinson]

We actually dumped the pcm data as it was arriving to the driver (via the
trigger start and irq functions), and it was corrupted at that point. Also I
have dumped the pcm data after it has been mixed by the dmix plugin, and it
is fine there as well.

On 7/9/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>
> At Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:28:13 -0700,
> Aaron "Caustik" Robinson wrote:
> >
> > We have been having one heck of a time tracking down the cause of some
> ALSA
> > audio playback issues.
> >
> > It appears that any time we play a very short sound (<64kb), either the
> > sound doesn't play at all, or only a fragment of it plays. We haven't
> had
> > much luck finding a solution to this issue, then I found this thread on
> the
> > history of this email group:
> >
> >
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-April/000526.html
> >
> > Our problem is pretty much exactly like his issues relating to <64k
> sounds.
> >
> > My question is - has anybody else run into this problem? To the OP of
> the
> > above thread, if you're still listening - did you ever find a solution
> to
> > your problem? I'd be very interested to hear any help you can provide.
>
> It works fine with my systems, so the problem should be pretty
> driver-specific...
>
>
> Takashi
>