Re: alsa buffer size

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paul blakeley wrote:
> I have successfully increased the amount of buffer by writing a new value into
> /proc/asound/cardX/pcm*/sub*/prealloc.
> 
> For a mono .wav file I was able to successfully change this from 64 to
> 512.  I was really happy with this.  I presume this value is in the
> units of kBytes?

Yes.

> And that this value needs to be 2 to the n. ie 16,32,64 etc?

No, it can be any value supported by the driver.

> Dont know why but I couldn't change this to > 512, do you?

Because the driver's upper limit for the buffer size is 512 KB.


Regards,
Clemens

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