[pulseaudio-discuss] First file play through Pulse audio

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 20.06.09 10:10, Harsha, Priya (priya.harsha at intel.com) wrote:

> No this is not on USB. I am writing a new ALSA driver for a new
> hardware and when I play through pulse audio, first time after
> reboot, I get a hush noise (empty buffers?).
> 
> Can you please give some clue if pulse audio is sending it or is
> there anything else you think is going wrong. This happens only for
> the first file after reboot and not for subsequent files.

This really sounds as if ALSA/your driver wouldn't fully empty the hw
playback buffer when we open the device. Maybe some undefined data is
left in the buffers which then causes this sound to be played?

PA simply plays silence if there is nothing else to play.

Lennart

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