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>> ><br>
>> > below is what the terminate shows when running pcm_avail.c<br>
>> ><br>
>> > uid=0 gid=1007@nutshell:/ # alsactl_test<br>
>> > min_period_size: 8 frames, dir: 0<br>
>> > Playback hwparams: FIFO size is 8<br>
>> > Hardware PCM card 0 'rsnd-dai.0-dirana3.0' device 0 subdevice 0<br>
>> > Its setup is:<br>
>> > stream : PLAYBACK<br>
>> > access : RW_INTERLEAVED<br>
>> > format : S16_LE<br>
>> > subformat : STD<br>
>> > channels : 2<br>
>> > rate : 48000<br>
>> > exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)<br>
>> > msbits : 16<br>
>> > buffer_size : 4096<br>
>> > period_size : 1024<br>
>> > period_time : 21333<br>
>> > tstamp_mode : NONE<br>
>> > period_step : 1<br>
>> > avail_min : 1024<br>
>> > period_event : 0<br>
>> > start_threshold : 1024<br>
>> > stop_threshold : 4096<br>
>> > silence_threshold: 0<br>
>> > silence_size : 0<br>
>> > boundary : 1073741824<br>
>> > appl_ptr : 0<br>
>> > hw_ptr : 0<br>
>> > Playing silence<br>
>> > Available: 0, loop iteration: 0<br>
>> > Available: 1024, loop iteration: 1469<br>
>> > Available: 2048, loop iteration: 5609<br>
>> > Available: 3072, loop iteration: 9667<br>
>> ><br>
>> > All I got is just the 4 lines.<br>
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>> If your sound card only increment hw_ptr only at interrupt occur, you<br>
>> need to increase default_rewind_safeguard from 256 bytes to your<br>
>> selected period size<br>
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> No. PulseAudio, in timer-scheduling mode, does not use periods at all. You need to change the driver so that it reports SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH, so that PulseAudio does not try to use this mode.<br>
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>> This mean that your sound card won't work with timer scheduling or<br>
>> dynamic latency, you can only archieve low latency by decrease period size<br>
>> Why do pulseaudio enable timer scheduling when most sound card use IRQ ?<br>
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> Because most broken sound cards driver authors forget to report SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH?<br>
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<p>Most driver use irq interrupt , only a few sound cards ( seem less than ten) can report DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_BURST</p>
<p>Why do timer based scheduling enablef by default ?</p>