Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In terms of better testing I now need to concentrate on finding an > application that run without creating xruns within the application > itself. At higher latency values (p=256 for instance) alsaplayer -r -o > jack runs pretty well, but as I move to lower latencies I find that > alsaplayer deterministically creates xruns at the transistion between > every song on a CD. I also tried alsaplayer playing wave files from > disk, but I see xruns as it goes from one file to the next also. > > I want to try using chrt to see if alsaplayer is really getting > real-time access, etc. Maybe there are things still not right with the > way I'm running it on my box. I sometimes see problems with alsaplayer at low latencies, too. Generally below -p128 or so. > Is there any other simple app that could play a wave file from, for > instance, memory without this sort of problem? I've had good luck with hydrogen. Play one of the demo drum patterns. > So, the good news is my Gentoo system is not broken, and that I've > hopefully learned a bit and contributed just a little bit more along > the way. That said I still have a long ways to go. Good work. -- joq
