On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:34:55AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: >> ALSA playback seems to be more reliable if the .pointer() hook reports >> a value slightly into the period, rather than right on the period >> boundary. This patch adds a fudge factor of 1/4 the period size >> to better estimate the actual position of the DMA engine in the >> audio buffer. > > It occurs to me that in terms of dealing with what's going on here this > probably is achieving exactly the same effect as Jon's code in that it > tells ALSA that things are a bit ahead of where the buffer started. Possibly, but I can both reproduce and eliminate the problem Jon is seeing regardless of whether or not this patch, so I'm not yet convinced. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
