On 05-11-18, 14:23, Daniel Baluta wrote: > cplay first writes frag * fragment_size and then > it only writes one fragment at a time. > > This means for example than if the user supplied a buffer_size > it will only be used for the first write. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx> > --- > I noticed this while investigating why cplay prints buffer_size as > 0 when not specified as command line argument to cplay. > > I also noticed that cred always reads frag * frament_size, so I think > this patch should be OK, but marking it as RFC to get your thoughts. > > src/utils/cplay.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/utils/cplay.c b/src/utils/cplay.c > index 2a52b52..b016f52 100644 > --- a/src/utils/cplay.c > +++ b/src/utils/cplay.c > @@ -435,15 +435,15 @@ void play_samples(char *name, unsigned int card, unsigned int device, > }; > if (verbose) > printf("%s: Opened compress device\n", __func__); > - size = config.fragment_size; > - buffer = malloc(size * config.fragments); > + size = config.fragments * config.fragment_size; > + buffer = malloc(size); net result of this change is no change. Leaving alone the variable names from this discussion, we allocate memory for size of config.fragments * config.fragment_size > if (!buffer) { > fprintf(stderr, "Unable to allocate %d bytes\n", size); > goto COMP_EXIT; > } > > /* we will write frag fragment_size and then start */ > - num_read = fread(buffer, 1, size * config.fragments, file); > + num_read = fread(buffer, 1, size, file); > if (num_read > 0) { > if (verbose) > printf("%s: Doing first buffer write of %d\n", __func__, num_read); > @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ void play_samples(char *name, unsigned int card, unsigned int device, > } > } > printf("Playing file %s On Card %u device %u, with buffer of %lu bytes\n", > - name, card, device, buffer_size); > + name, card, device, size); I would prefer to fix the buffer_size when you dont specify in cmdline and we use driver defaults, in that case we calculate this, something like.. diff --git a/src/utils/cplay.c b/src/utils/cplay.c index 87863a307b47..a77e417ddf85 100644 --- a/src/utils/cplay.c +++ b/src/utils/cplay.c @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ void play_samples(char *name, unsigned int card, unsigned int device, }; if (verbose) printf("%s: Opened compress device\n", __func__); + + /* check if buffer_size is used (driver defaults being used */ + if (!buffer_size) + buffer_size = config.fragment_size * config.fragments; + size = config.fragment_size; buffer = malloc(size * config.fragments); if (!buffer) { And of course, we need to optimize the size variable usage! This does not seem optimal :) -- ~Vinod _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel