* Calculated average playback latency
@ 2010-12-14 12:30 Jean-Yves Avenard
2010-12-14 16:20 ` Clemens Ladisch
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From: Jean-Yves Avenard @ 2010-12-14 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alsa-devel
Hi there.
I am involved in maintaining the mythtv audio code.
Today one of our user complained that he couldn't get any audio out ,
even though everything was properly configured on his side.
By default, Myth uses mmap access ; unless we found out that the audio
device doesn't allow mmap (e.g. snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(handle,
params, SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED) errored)
Problem, turned out his was using a USB audio device, and
snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access didn't return any error.
It's not the first time we're having such issues, so I decided to stop
using mmap and instead use snd_pcm_writei.
Now on my system, this has added quite a bit of latency and the A/V
sync isn't perfect anymore...
Is there an official way to calculate an average system latency
(doesn't need to be perfectly accurate).
I couldn't find obvious references on how to perform such task.
I find some references in program like mplayer or jack using
snd_pcm_status_get_trigger_tstamp
Would anyone be kind enough to point me to some documentation or
explain to me how I could calculate the average latency between the
time you start playback and the time sounds actually comes out.
Thank you in advance
Jean-Yves
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* Re: Calculated average playback latency
2010-12-14 12:30 Calculated average playback latency Jean-Yves Avenard
@ 2010-12-14 16:20 ` Clemens Ladisch
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From: Clemens Ladisch @ 2010-12-14 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jean-Yves Avenard; +Cc: alsa-devel
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> By default, Myth uses mmap access
Why?
> Problem, turned out his was using a USB audio device, and
> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access didn't return any error.
USB audio devices do support mmap.
> ... I decided to stop using mmap and instead use snd_pcm_writei.
>
> Now on my system, this has added quite a bit of latency and the A/V
> sync isn't perfect anymore...
Using mmap neither reduces latency, nor does it improve synchronization.
> Is there an official way to calculate an average system latency
> (doesn't need to be perfectly accurate).
Not the average, but try snd_pcm_delay().
Regards,
Clemens
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