Re: Garbage at end of playback: ecasound or alsa broken?

On 21.07.2013 08:25, Joel Roth wrote:
> The RME Digi96 / PAD with expansion boards allows up to 8
> channels of 24 bit audio for simultaneous recording and playback,
> but the hardware buffer is small: 42.666 ms. So I modified the
> kernel driver rme96.c to allow (much) bigger buffers to reliably prevent
> buffer underruns / overruns.
> Wouldn't a 40ms buffer rule out software monitoring?

For the equivalent of an 8-track tape recorder big buffers at the driver level
are a convenient feature that help to prevent xruns. Live dsp has totally
different needs. But even very big buffers are not harmfull in that case,
you are not required to wait until they are filled ;-) The can be programmed
to generate interrupts every 1.33 msec ....

> I also tested ecasound, and found the problem described in
> the original post.
> I am still curious about whether the problem was with
> ecasound or the expectation, as I'm unclear the
> precise intent and effect of the routing you chose to use.
> It looks like some sort of loopback.

Joel, this setup is a pure test setup. It´s definitely a bug when a
44100 samples playback is expected and a 44100 samples
playback is done immediately followed by a playback of about 1982
samples that had a been played already in the past.

cu,
  knut



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