David Shirley wrote: > > I am using an nvidia MCP78 to connect to a Denon 1910 AVR via HDMI. > > > > I was using Kernel 2.6.32.21 and noticed that the initial few seconds > > of my songs was being chopped off. > > I just want to say I upgraded to kernel 2.6.36 today and still miss > the first 0.5seconds or so of the sound output. > ... > both HDMI and SPDIF exhibit the same problem. Apparently, your receiver needs even more time to detect that some sound is playing; there's nothing that the computer could do about it. Try playing some silence before starting playing music. (This requires a software mixer like dmix or PulseAudio.) Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel