On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, VDR User wrote: > occurs in xine. The error I see in the xine log when the dropout > occurs is: pcm_hw.c: snd_pcm_hw_delay() SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DELAY failed > (-32). -32 means -EPIPE - underrun has occured. It means that xine does not deliver samples in time to the driver for some reason. Because mplayer works, it does not seem like a general ALSA issue. I would ask xine developers for further debugging of this issue (compare the audio write calls with the realtime clock). Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel