<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>A little more info on this...</div><div><br></div><div>1. By "gaps", I mean silence or 0s. And this is not simply an artifact of using filesrc to write a wav. The gaps are also audible (or rather, not audible, since it's silence, but I think everyone knows what I mean :-)</div><div><br></div><div>2. As I mentioned previously, I see the same behavior (gaps) if I replace audiotestsrc with alsasrc (pointing to a line-in where I am playing a sine wave from my phone).</div><div><br></div><div>3. Enabling GST_DEBUG=audioaggregator:5 I see a Timeout msg, e.g., "Timeout, missing 36 frames (0:00:00.000816326)" that corresponds to all the gaps in the resulting wav file.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on that, I start to think that maybe I need to set a latency on the audiomixer (the default is 0). However, no value I use makes any difference.</div><div><br></div><div>Next, and I can't explain why, I put a queue immediately after the audiomixer (no latency or other non-default settings). This eliminates the Timeouts (and gaps of silence). This holds true when I switch back to an alsasrc instead of the audiotestsrc.</div><div><br></div><div>I dumped the graphs -- the queue (it's the only queue in the very short pipeline) does not show as buffering any data. So I am really confused as to how this "fixed" the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have an explanation? I'd settle for even just a well-written theory :-)</div><div><br></div><div>thanks in advance,</div><div>-jim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Hi Matt,<br>
I tried that as well. I get the same result .. gaps every 5 seconds.<br>
<br>
If I remove is-live (with or without do-timestamp), then there are no gaps.<br>
However, in this case, I also get a much larger, and longer, file; which I<br>
don't understand.<br>
<br>
And again, if I use an adder (vs audiomixer), I get no gaps (with is-live<br>
and do-timestamp both true). And if I remove the adder, same ... no gaps.<br>
<br>
I'm trying not to get hung up on audiotestsrc itself as it is simply a way<br>
for me to demonstrate what I see with my pipeline using alsasrc and an<br>
audiomixer.<br>
<br>
I suppose I don't really understand what audiomixer is doing. Another<br>
oddity (I think) is that if instead of running the sample pipeline for a<br>
set time (using the timeout command), I instead use num-buffers=1000 (in<br>
audiotestsrc), I get different resulting file sizes:<br>
- with an adder, I get a file with 10.884s of audio and a size of 960056<br>
bytes.<br>
- with an audiomixer, I get a file with 10.920s of audio and a size<br>
of 1926332 bytes.<br>
<br>
Any chance someone is willing to run the same test and compare results?<br>
export TESTSOURCE1="audiotestsrc wave=0 volume=0.8 is-live=true<br>
do-timestamp=true samplesperbuffer=480"<br>
export SINK="wavenc ! filesink location=test.wav"<br>
timeout 60 gst-launch-1.0 $TESTSOURCE1 blocksize=960 ! audiomixer ! $SINK<br>
<br>
The gaps go away if I use an adder, as does my actual problem in my "real"<br>
pipeline, but I'd like to understand why.<br>
<br>
thanks in advance,<br>
-jim<br>
<br>
<br>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 19:05:25 +1100<br>
> From: Matthew Waters <<a href="mailto:ystreet00@gmail.com" target="_blank">ystreet00@gmail.com</a>><br>
><br>
> Don't use 'do-timestamp=true' with audiotestsrc.? It will not do the<br>
> right thing.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> -Matt<br>
><br>
> On 8/12/20 5:12 pm, jim nualart wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> > Hoping that someone can shed some light on this...<br>
> ><br>
> > The following pipeline results in a file with gaps every 5 seconds:<br>
> > export TESTSOURCE1="audiotestsrc wave=0 volume=0.8 is-live=true<br>
> > do-timestamp=true samplesperbuffer=480"<br>
> > export SINK="wavenc ! filesink location=test.wav"<br>
> > timeout 60 gst-launch-1.0 $TESTSOURCE1 ! audiomixer ! $SINK<br>
> ><br>
> > If you open the resulting wav file (e.g., in audacity), there are gaps<br>
> > every 5 seconds.<br>
> ><br>
> > If you remove the audiomixer?from the pipeline, there are no gaps. If<br>
> > you use an adder (instead of the audiomixer), there are no gaps.<br>
> ><br>
> > I've looked at logs (GST_DEBUG=audiomixer:6), and there are no obvious<br>
> > errors/warnings/etc.<br>
> ><br>
> > I realize that the audiotestsrc is not really a live-source and I'm<br>
> > not sure how well it behaves as such. But I am actually<br>
> > troubleshooting a similar issue using an alsasrc instead. I am hoping<br>
> > that if I understand what's going on here, it will help on the other<br>
> > issue. (For the issue with the alsasrc, I've gone so far as to write<br>
> > the data to files; one at the src of the element feeding the<br>
> > audiomixer, and one at the src of the audiomixer itself -- the first<br>
> > shows no gaps, while the later does show gaps.)<br>
> ><br>
> > Many thanks in advance to any advice.<br>
> > -jim<br>
> ><br>
> > _______________________________________________<br><br><br>
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