Re: [ecasound] alsa problems recording (but not oss)

[Matthew B. <mat...@ex...>]

Hi Kai,



thanks for your response.

Even with the -z:noxruns and -z:nodb and -z:intbuf set, using alsahw,0,0 (the only interface defined) causes huge xruns, and using /dev/dsp doesn't, although it does tend to lock up the machine for a while.



thanks,



Matt 











 --- On Tue 08/29, Kai Vehmanen < kve...@ec... > wrote:

From: Kai Vehmanen [mailto: kve...@ec...]

To: mat...@ex...

     Cc: eca...@li...

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:44:59 +0300 (EEST)

Subject: Re: [ecasound] alsa problems recording (but not oss)



Hi,On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Matthew Becker wrote:> I have gotten ecasound going on my ipaq h2200 (running familiar 0.84-r3) > and recording is rock solid with arecord at both dat mode (48000) and cd [...]> however, when i try to run ecasound with the alsa driver:> ecasound -i alsahw,0,0 -o 1.wav -z:nodb -z:intbuf> i instantly get xruns like crazy (every tick pretty much).hmm, this seems _really_ odd to me. The mechanisms used to read from an ALSA and OSS are almost identical performance-wise! :oMy guess would be that ecasound is triggering some bug in the ALSA driver for h2200. You could try recording with "-z:noxruns", and see if the output file is ok (maybe the xruns are falsely detected). You've probably already tried with "-z:nointbuf"...?If the same happened with both OSS and ALSA (but worked on arecord), thiswould be easier to explain (ecasound uses float math, arecord doesn't -> this can make a huge difference on devices without hw-based float math ...but, but, h2200 
should have enough horse power to do some simple operations even in float).--   links, my public keys, etc at http://eca.cx/kv

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