On Monday 16 June 2008, you wrote: > Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > > Well it interrupts Skype. Five to ten overruns and than I am out of > > Skype, aborted.. > > Do not know if I can influence the Alsa settings. Looking into the Skype > > sound setup II found that incomming, outgoing and ringing have each 7 > > choices. Do not know what they mean and I am still looking into what they > > are doing to my system. The choices I found are: > > > > Default device > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (hw:CS46xx.0) > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (plughw:CS46xx.0) > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (hw:CS46xx.1) > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (plughw:CS46xx.1) > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (hw:CS46xx.2) > > Sound Fusion CS46xx (plughw:CS46xx.2) > > > > Could intensive playing with these choices do something positive for the > > Also setting? > > What version of alsa are you running? Maybe an upgrade would help. > There are links to the latest and greatest at http://www.alsa-project.org > > I recommend you use either the default device or one of the plughw > devices. They give you some alsa magic. > > What happens if you use arecord to record a sample directly rather than > through skype? See man arecord for sample command. > It seems to me that it is skype causing the problem at the interface to > alsa, rather than alsa itself. This will confirm that. If you can > record without overruns using arecord, it is a skype interface problem. > Underrun means that you are playing audio and the device > runs out of frames to play, overrun means you are recording audio, and > the device runs out of buffer space to put the audio. > > Someone posted on this list a link to http://frinika.sourceforge.net and > there were some settings to prioritize sound high so it didn't get > locked out by other happenings like beagle and other background disk > scanners. Thanks for the explanation about over and under run. Will do some homework on man arecord. What is a plughw device. Never heard of that expression. Have following versions on this machine: alsa-oss-1.0.14-23 alsa-1.0.14-31.2 alsa-utils-1.0.14.27 Does that mean update time? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
