Hi, I have the configuration in the asound.conf above. my_plug - - > my_route - - > my_multi - - > slave0 (forward) - - > slave1 (loopback) I open the plug my_plug in the block mode: writtenFrames = snd_pcm_writei(handle, bufferToWrite, bufferToWriteSize); The issue I see is that there are several "writes" with 0 written frames. It seems like the snd_pcm_writei does not hold until data will be written. In general, 0 written frames sounds weird to me, because snd_pcm_writei should block itself if no space is available in the circular buffer right? I have tried to fix the following method in pcm_multi.c, as Jaroslav Kysela suggests. -static int snd_pcm_multi_may_wait_for_avail_min(snd_pcm_t *pcm, snd_pcm_uframes_t avail ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) +static int snd_pcm_multi_may_wait_for_avail_min(snd_pcm_t *pcm, snd_pcm_uframes_t avail) { snd_pcm_multi_t *multi = pcm->private_data; - snd_pcm_t *slave = multi->slaves[multi->master_slave].pcm; - return snd_pcm_may_wait_for_avail_min(slave, snd_pcm_mmap_avail(slave)); + unsigned int i; + for (i = 0; i < multi->slaves_count; ++i) { + if (snd_pcm_may_wait_for_avail_min(multi->slaves[i].pcm, avail)) + return 1; + } + return 0; } But unfortunately the issue has not been resolved. #************************************************* # PLAYBACK #************************************************* pcm.my_plug { type plug slave.pcm my_route slave.channels 2 } pcm.my_route { type route slave.pcm my_multi slave.channels 4 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.0.1 1 ttable.1.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 } pcm.my_multi { type multi slaves { slave0 { pcm my_dmix channels 2 } slave1 { pcm my_dmix_loop channels 2 } } bindings { 0 {slave slave0 channel 0} 1 {slave slave0 channel 1} 2 {slave slave1 channel 0} 3 {slave slave1 channel 1} } } #-------------------- Slave 0 -------------------- pcm.my_dmix { type dmix ipc_key 1000 ipc_key_add_uid 1 ipc_perm 0600 slave.period_time 10000 slave.period_size 480 slave.buffer_size 3840 slave.rate 48000 slave.pcm "hw:0,0" } #-------------------- Slave 1 -------------------- pcm.my_dmix_loop { type dmix ipc_key 1000 ipc_key_add_uid 1 ipc_perm 0600 slave.period_time 10000 slave.period_size 480 slave.buffer_size 3840 slave.rate 48000 slave.pcm my_loopback_out } pcm.my_loopback_out { type hw card Loopback device 0 subdevice 0 } #************************************************* # CAPTURE #************************************************* pcm.my_dsnoop_loop { type dsnoop ipc_key 1000 ipc_key_add_uid 1 ipc_perm 0600 slave.period_time 10000 slave.period_size 480 slave.buffer_size 3840 slave.rate 48000 slave.pcm my_loopback_in } pcm.my_loopback_in { type hw card Loopback device 1 subdevice 0 } _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel