[pulseaudio-discuss] Toslink capture looback latency problem

[Georg Chini]

On 29.01.2018 18:46, Nico wrote:
> On 01/29/2018 03:52 PM, NicoHood wrote:
>> On 01/29/2018 03:29 PM, Georg Chini wrote:
>>> On 29.01.2018 14:44, NicoHood wrote:
>>>> On 01/29/2018 01:39 PM, Georg Chini wrote:
>>>>> On 29.01.2018 12:52, Nico wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I want to capture the audio stream of my TV with my PCI-E Toslink sound
>>>>>> card and play it back on my usb XLR soundcard. The reason why I do that
>>>>>> is to use my own music boxes rather than the TV speakers. With
>>>>>> toslink +
>>>>>> XLR I do not have problems with ground loops etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using the pulseaudio loopback module with its default
>>>>>> configuration. The problem is, that the delay between picture and sound
>>>>>> is about one second off, and the longer I wait, the more delay it gets
>>>>>> (30 seconds and more). It is no usable like this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to play with the latencies of source, sink and the tv delay
>>>>>> itself without sucess. I also tried streaming with pacat directly as
>>>>>> described here:
>>>>>> https://thelinuxexperiment.com/fix-pulseaudio-loopback-delay/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also tried to change different parameters of the loopback module or
>>>>>> the sources/sinks, but that did not help. I never changed any global
>>>>>> pulseaudio config to avoid larger configuration issues. The CPU
>>>>>> usage of
>>>>>> pulseaudio is at 3% with the loopback module
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone help me to get rid of this lag?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nico,
>>>>>
>>>>> which version of PA are you using? Can you provide logs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>                Georg
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Georg,
>>>> oh sure I completely forgot:
>>>>
>>>> pulseaudio 11.1-1 (Arch Linux)
>>>> uname -a: Linux zebes 4.14.15-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 23 21:49:25
>>>> UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> Here is a logfile:
>>>> LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1
>>>> https://gist.github.com/NicoHood/85976f426e1621e599253ee1a95230dd
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Nico
>>> This is weird. It looks like the source sample rate is so much higher
>>> than the sink rate that module-loopback can't adapt. No idea why
>>> this happens. Does it work with another input?
>>>
>>>
>> I've tested it also with the builtin front microphone input (2nd
>> revision on gist) and with the PCIE Analog line in (3rd gist revision).
>> You can view the changes here:
>> https://gist.github.com/NicoHood/85976f426e1621e599253ee1a95230dd/revisions
>>
>> The problem only occurs with the digital, optical TOSLINK input from my
>> Samsung TV. For some other reason the sound distortion for the analog
>> input is now (temporary) gone. However I still want to get that TOSLINK
>> running :/
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> As an additional test I send the audio to the TOSLINK output of the
> soundcard, back to its input and setup loopback on the input again (to
> the USB soundcard). With this method the sound has no lag. The
> difference is that the toslink signal comes from the soundcard itself
> rather than the TV. I have some smaller noises/distortion however
> sometimes. Here is the log:
> https://gist.github.com/NicoHood/6ef237649d97eaa69d9a78dd91eff34a
>
Somehow this still sounds like a sample rate mismatch. (A wild
guess, I do not know how the signal chain works for a TOS-link)
Have you tried setting your card to 48kHz? You can change
default-sample-rate and alternate-sample-rate in daemon.conf
both to 48000 and restart pulse to enforce this.