[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4764: alsa buffer problem introducedin 15893

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 01:05 +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2008 22:46:20 Mark Spieth wrote:
> > > tested t4764.diff, but I will as soon as possible. Though 128000
> > > (=32000*4) is still quite close to 100000 (which was too small).
> > >
> > > Digital spdif out doesn't work for me until i changed:
> > >
> > > buffer_time = 32000 * 4;    // in usec
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > buffer_time = 32000 * 16;    // in usec
> > >
> > > Even a setting of 8 was to small.
> >
> > ok looks like spdif needs above 400ms.
> > does the following work for everyone?
> 
> no, unfortunately not. normal stereo output on a HDA Intel (Santa Rosa) 
> with in-kernel drivers 2.6.24.3.

For 0.21, is there any serious harm in just always using a 500ms buffer?

-- Daniel