[alsa-devel] Help

[Sudeept Prusti]

Hi Jaroslav,
 
can u tell what all are changes to be made for the program to playout a simple PCM file. if any reference you could give me then it's quiet good.
 
Thanks,
Sudeept

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From: Jaroslav Kysela [mailto:perex at perex.cz]
Sent: Fri 4/24/2009 5:09 PM
To: Sudeept Prusti
Cc: ALSA development
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Help



On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Sudeept Prusti wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As i am working on alsa for minimal PCM playback (8khz,mono,16 bit pcm
> file).
>
> When i tried to allocate 1k buffer and send through snd_pcm_writei()
> call it doesn't play perfect and skips are there in between. If we keep
> on increasing in allocating the buffer for 31 kb then it could play the
> buffers randomly.

Sure. Your file read logic is broken. You have to check number of bytes
read and do not assume that 'k' bytes were read all time. Also, using seek
is not necessary for sequential reads.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.




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