On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:11:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:52:28 +0200,
> Manuel Lauss wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:03:32PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:02:48 +0200,
> > > I wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:32:23 +0200,
> > > > Manuel Lauss wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > >> Is there a way to insert an initial playback delay? Under linux, the
> > > > > > > >> first 2-2.5 seconds
> > > > > > > >> of anything played are just silence; on windows audible playback
> > > > > > > >> starts immediately.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It's the time for synchronization your digital receiver takes, I guess.
> > > > > > > > Maybe changing SPDIF status makes it resync, which happens at each
> > > > > > > > opening / closing the stream.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yes, seems so. I've found a workaround in meantime.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you elaborate on the workaround please, so others having this
> > > > > > issue know it.
> > > > >
> > > > > My receiver allows to mix analog and digital inputs; with analog mix
> > > > > enabled it syncs immediately.
> > > >
> > > > Just wondering whether the patch below helps?
> > > >
> > > > It's just a proof-of-concept, and it's not safe for multiple streams.
> > > > If this works, we can move on the improvement of the stream assignment.
> > >
> > > ... and the below is the patch. If the previous patch worked, try
> > > this instead of the previous one.
> >
> >
> > Tested with mplayer. The initial 2-2.5sec silence is still there (on every
> > invocation of mplayer), but seeking now works as it should (previously
> > there was 2 sec silence too). Disabling codec pm doesn't help.
>
> OK, it's a slight improvement. Now the question is why it still happens
> at each invocation of mplayer. Assuming that it's no power-save, one
> possible explanation is the call of azx_stream_reset() in prepare.
> But, then this should happen at each seek, too.
>
> Could you put some printk's and check whether AC_VERB_SET_CHANNEL_STREAMID
> and/or AC_VERB_GET_STREAM_FORMAT verbs are executed at each time or
> properly cached?
Something new in the dmesg:
hda_codec: ALC892: BIOS auto-probing.
ALSA hda_codec.c:337: hda_codec: connection list not available for 0x1f
ALSA device list:
#0: HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16
I added a few printks (see patch below). This is the output generated
at every invocation of mplayer:
S1: p->stream_tag 00000000 stream_tag 00000005 p->channel_id 0 channel_id 0
S2: oldval 0 newval 50
S3: p->format_id 0 format 49
S4: oldval 0 newval 50
S1: p->stream_tag 00000000 stream_tag 00000005 p->channel_id 0 channel_id 0
S2: oldval 0 newval 50
S3: p->format_id 0 format 49
S4: oldval 0 newval 50
S1: p->stream_tag 00000000 stream_tag 00000005 p->channel_id 0 channel_id 0
S2: oldval 0 newval 50
S3: p->format_id 0 format 49
S4: oldval 0 newval 50
S1: p->stream_tag 00000000 stream_tag 00000005 p->channel_id 0 channel_id 0
S2: oldval 0 newval 50
S3: p->format_id 0 format 49
S4: oldval 0 newval 50
S1: p->stream_tag 00000000 stream_tag 00000005 p->channel_id 0 channel_id 0
S2: oldval 0 newval 50
S3: p->format_id 0 format 49
S4: oldval 0 newval 50
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
index d510359..d6036c6 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
@@ -1227,9 +1227,13 @@ void snd_hda_codec_setup_stream(struct hda_codec *codec, hda_nid_t nid,
if (!p)
return;
/* update the stream-id if changed */
+ printk(KERN_ERR "S1: p->stream_tag %08lx stream_tag %08lx p->channel_id %d channel_id %d\n",
+ p->stream_tag, stream_tag, p->channel_id, channel_id);
+
if (p->stream_tag != stream_tag || p->channel_id != channel_id) {
oldval = snd_hda_codec_read(codec, nid, 0, AC_VERB_GET_CONV, 0);
newval = (stream_tag << 4) | channel_id;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "S2: oldval %x newval %x\n", oldval, newval);
if (oldval != newval)
snd_hda_codec_write(codec, nid, 0,
AC_VERB_SET_CHANNEL_STREAMID,
@@ -1238,9 +1242,11 @@ void snd_hda_codec_setup_stream(struct hda_codec *codec, hda_nid_t nid,
p->channel_id = channel_id;
}
/* update the format-id if changed */
+ printk(KERN_ERR "S3: p->format_id %d format %d\n", p->format_id, format);
if (p->format_id != format) {
oldval = snd_hda_codec_read(codec, nid, 0,
AC_VERB_GET_STREAM_FORMAT, 0);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "S4: oldval %x newval %x\n", oldval, newval);
if (oldval != format) {
msleep(1);
snd_hda_codec_write(codec, nid, 0,
Thanks!
Manuel Lauss
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