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lynix

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 230

Alsa output delay

Hello everyone!

I Just switched over from Gentoo to Arch and everything works great on my Acer Notebook, except one thing:

When an application plays sound over alsa, the first second gets lost. For example, if i do

aplay /usr/share/sounds/email.wav

i just hear nothing because the file is too short. If I do

aplay -R 100 /usr/share/sounds/email.wav

it plays fine and i hear everything.

Someone got an idea whats wrong with my sound? Hardware is a Intel HDA integrated Audio and i get no errors in logs or at bootup.

Thanks!

lynix

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: Alsa output delay

I have the same problem. I thought it was a problem with mplayer and mp3s and never bothered, but it looks like it's actually a problem with alsa.

This works too (1 ms delay?)

aplay -R 1 sound.wav

what's more is that setting the delay to 1000 doesn't add a lag of 1 second.

trapdoor

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Registered: 2005-03-27

Posts: 82

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Re: Alsa output delay

I'm having exactly the same issue here... So did you solve this problem, or has anyone else a suggestion?

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Alsa output delay

I don't have a fix, but a millisecond is not a microsecond

sc30317

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Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 19

Re: Alsa output delay

Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem?

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: Alsa output delay

This issue is resolved for me with the latest release of alsa. See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 85#p413985.