Hi, In my external io type plugin, the alsa buffer is not accessible in the transfer function, symptom of this is I am unable to memcpy period size data from alsa buffer to my local buffers. after debugging a little I found out that values of offset, size and areas->step are wrong. #aplay --period-size =1024 --buffer-size=8192 test.wav static snd_pcm_sframes_t alsa_transfer(snd_pcm_ioplug_t *io, const snd_pcm_channel_area_t *areas, snd_pcm_uframes_t offset, snd_pcm_uframes_t size) I get following, Buffer size = 32768 bytes Period size = 4096 bytes *ALSA buffer base addr = 0x2c6e0 //wrong Offset = 0xbeb4c7dc **//wrong* *size = 1063777280 **//wrong* step = 32 What could be the reason? -Pharaoh. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel