[alsa-devel] Any OSS changes from kernel 2.6.21 to 2.6.23? Something broke.

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>> Timur Tabi wrote:
>>> I have a customer who says that mplayer (using OSS) does not work when he tries
>>> a kernel based on 2.6.23-rc4, but it works when he uses a kernel based on
>>> 2.6.21.  Everything else is the same (including the version of alsa-lib), so I
>>> presume something broke in the OSS emulation in the kernel.
>> It could also be a change in the driver.
>>
>> And it would be nice to know what "does not work" actually means.
> 
> I didn't want to get into a length description of the problem without first 
> seeing if there were any obvious changes.  There are still a few things I can debug.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing is that when using mplayer to play a video file through 
> the OSS interface, at some point in the movie, the driver will stop telling ALSA 
> that has finished playing a period.  It's almost as if ALSA is throttling the 
> driver incorrectly.
> 
> If I tell mplayer to just play the file through OSS, the problem occurs almost 
> immediately.  If I tell mplayer to convert the sample rate from 44100 to 48000 
> (my driver understands 48000 but not 44100), the problem doesn't always occur, 
> but when it does (about every other time I play the file), it starts to happen 
> about 5 seconds into the file.
> 
Why are you using OSS. mplayer supports ALSA direct.