[alsa-devel] Audio passthrough on Pandaboard using ALSA API

[Maarten Baert]

Your application does not handle overruns and underruns (EPIPE indicates
that either of these is happening). It also doesn't have any drift
correction, so overruns/underruns are to be expected (the sample rate of
the capture and playback stream is not guaranteed to be exactly matched).

By the way, there is a tool called 'alsaloop' (from alsa-utils) which
does exactly the same thing, but with drift correction and more options ...

Maarten Baert

On 28/02/14 09:47, Vadim Izmalkov wrote:
> Hello
>
> I created simple application that makes audio pass-through (from analog input to analog output),
>
> After 2-10 seconds get error like:
> AlsaPassthrough: pcm.c:693: snd_pcm_close: Assertion `pcm' failed.
> or
> write to audio interface failed (Broken pipe)
>
> Seems I have problem with buffer size/time or somethink like that.
> Parameters used:
> Buffer - 100 ms / 4800 frames / 19200 bytes
> Period - 10 ms / 480 frames / 1920 bytes
>
> Buffer length used 19200 bytes.
> char buffer[19200];
>
> Write/read function used as follow
> snd_pcm_readi(pcm, buffer, frames);
> snd_pcm_writei(pcm, buffer, frames);
>
> Have somebody any suggestion?