Hi, I have an ESI juli@ and I'm using optical s/pdif. I've had a very bad sound, to correct it I setup period_time period_size and buffer_size to correct the problem (as seen in forums). But I don't undertsand well what is it. If someone could explain to me or give me a link to documentation about that. I notice also that If I use sample rate of 44100 khz the sound is good even without setting period_* and buffer_size. So I think it's related to upsampling. (Ok in my case rate of 96000 isn't needed but I think the sound must be correct even with an upsampling). Note: I have an engineering background so I think I can understand technical details. Here my .asoundrc: defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best" pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm { type dmix ipc_key 1478 slave { pcm "hw:0,1" format S32_LE period_time 0 period_size 1024 # buffer_size 8192 rate 96000 } } } Thanks a lot ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user