I am currently working on the I2S drivers for the S3C24XX series ARM9 SoC, and have been having trouble with jittery or interrupted playback with ALSA 1.0.12rc1, on 2.6.18-rc2. The problem seems to manifest itself the most when using pause with madplay (madplay is compiled and optimised for the arm920t core, so seems to be efficiently decoding mp3s). The symptoms are: 1) madplay opens and configures /dev/dsp 2) madplay writes 4068 bytes to start play (apprx 1/40th sec, by my calc) 3) ALSA starts the sound driver by calling hw_params and then trigger(START) 4) before madplay has the chance to write more data, the hw indicates the initial buffer done (4096 bytes/buffer) and informs ALSA core. 5) more time passes, and the snd_pcm_hw_ptr_post detects an overrun on the buffer, and issues trigger(STOP) to stop the sound driver 6) by this time, madplay writes some more data, and therefore we return to step 3. The problem is that there is a large pause between 5 and 6, up to about 1 second, and thus the sound output becomes choppy and/or broken. Sometimes it seems to recover from this, and get back to playing audio fine. examples from the log: [21474589.680000] snd_pcm_oss_write: file c05341d4, buff befb0e20, size 4608 [21474589.680000] s3c24xx_snd_pcm_prepare: substream=c06ff1e4, chip=c0aa9b10 [21474589.760000] s3c2410_dma_enqueue: id=c0aa9b5c, data=30ab0000, size=4096 [21474589.760000] s3c24xx_snd_pcm_trigger: trigger START [21474589.765000] snd_pcm_oss_write: returning 4608 [21474589.785000] dma0: s3c2410_dma_irq [21474591.680000] snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_post: hw_ptr=00003409, appl_ptr=00000400 [21474591.680000] snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_post: xrun substream c06ff1e4 [21474591.680000] xrun: substream c06ff1e4 [21474591.680000] snd_pcm_stop: substream c06ff1e4, state 4 as you can see, in this case the next thing my debug can see after we get the irq to say the buffer has completed, almost two seconds elapses to the point where ALSA core finds the buffer has over-run (played more data than the application wrote) and causes the stream to stop. Are there any pointers to find out where the time is being taken, or has anyone else encountered a similar problem recently? -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
