On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:10 +0200, Christophe Osuna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get small delays with my application and I have been
> playing with "latency" from alsa-lib/test.
>
Can you please not post HTML to this list?
Lee
> The current delay with "latency" is equal to a minimum (that depends
> on the sound card) plus *two* times the period time. If I disable
> manual change of sound card state as described in the patch below the
> delay becomes equal to a minimum *higher than the previous* plus *one*
> time the period time.
>
> The delay has been measured with an external box plugged on the sound
> card.
>
> I would like to mix both settings to get a delay of the lowest minimum
> plus one time the period time. But for this I need to understand what
> is happening, and more precisely:
>
> * why is snd_pcm_link() mandatory? (no sound otherwise)
> * why two buffers of silence and not just one?
> * why is there no snd_pcm_start() for the playback device?
> * why is the minimum delay lower with manual handling of the sound
> card state?
>
> Help is welcome :-)
>
> Thanxs in advance.
>
>
>
> --- latency.c.orig 2006-06-20 10:21:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ latency.c 2006-06-20 11:06:10.000000000 +0200
> @@ -148,11 +148,11 @@
> printf("Unable to determine current swparams for %s: %
> s\n", id, snd_strerror(err
> ));
> return err;
> }
> - err = snd_pcm_sw_params_set_start_threshold(handle, swparams,
> 0x7fffffff);
> - if (err < 0) {
> - printf("Unable to set start threshold mode for %s: %s
> \n", id, snd_strerror(err))
> ;
> - return err;
> - }
> +/* err = snd_pcm_sw_params_set_start_threshold(handle, swparams,
> 0x7fffffff); */
> +/* if (err < 0) { */
> +/* printf("Unable to set start threshold mode for %s: %s
> \n", id, snd_strerror(err))
> ; */
> +/* return err; */
> +/* } */
> tick_time_ok = 0;
> if (tick_time > 0) {
> unsigned int time, ttime;
> @@ -273,10 +273,10 @@
> exit(0);
> }
>
> - if ((err = snd_pcm_prepare(phandle)) < 0) {
> - printf("Prepare error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
> - exit(0);
> - }
> +/* if ((err = snd_pcm_prepare(phandle)) < 0) { */
> +/* printf("Prepare error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err)); */
> +/* exit(0); */
> +/* } */
>
> snd_pcm_dump(phandle, output);
> snd_pcm_dump(chandle, output);
> @@ -646,27 +646,27 @@
> showlatency(latency);
> if (tick_time_ok)
> printf("Using tick time %ius\n",
> tick_time_ok);
> - if ((err = snd_pcm_link(chandle, phandle)) < 0) {
> - printf("Streams link error: %s\n",
> snd_strerror(err));
> - exit(0);
> - }
> - if (snd_pcm_format_set_silence(format, buffer,
> latency*channels) < 0) {
> - fprintf(stderr, "silence error\n");
> - break;
> - }
> - if (writebuf(phandle, buffer, latency, &frames_out) <
> 0) {
> - fprintf(stderr, "write error\n");
> - break;
> - }
> - if (writebuf(phandle, buffer, latency, &frames_out) <
> 0) {
> - fprintf(stderr, "write error\n");
> - break;
> - }
> -
> - if ((err = snd_pcm_start(chandle)) < 0) {
> - printf("Go error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
> - exit(0);
> - }
> +/* if ((err = snd_pcm_link(chandle, phandle)) < 0) { */
> +/* printf("Streams link error: %s\n",
> snd_strerror(err)); */
> +/* exit(0); */
> +/* } */
> +/* if (snd_pcm_format_set_silence(format, buffer,
> latency*channels) < 0) { */
> +/* fprintf(stderr, "silence error\n"); */
> +/* break; */
> +/* } */
> +/* if (writebuf(phandle, buffer, latency, &frames_out) <
> 0) { */
> +/* fprintf(stderr, "write error\n"); */
> +/* break; */
> +/* } */
> +/* if (writebuf(phandle, buffer, latency, &frames_out) <
> 0) { */
> +/* fprintf(stderr, "write error\n"); */
> +/* break; */
> +/* } */
> +
> +/* if ((err = snd_pcm_start(chandle)) < 0) { */
> +/* printf("Go error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
> */
> +/* exit(0); */
> +/* } */
> gettimestamp(phandle, &p_tstamp);
> gettimestamp(chandle, &c_tstamp);
> #if 0
>
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