Yeah it could be that. How would u setup a dmix to play silence? Thanks D. On 19/11/2010 7:07 PM, "Clemens Ladisch" <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
