[mythtv-users] Note to people seeing buffer underruns and have choppy playback

[Nick Morrott]

On 9 March 2011 07:28, Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>
>> Note that the default buffer size allocated to ALSA by default is only
>> 64kB; this isn't sufficient for most usage. Now the default will
>> depend on your distribution, it's 4096kB under Ubuntu for example.
>
> FYI, on Fedora 14:
>
> # cat /proc/asound/card*/pcm*p/sub0/prealloc
> 4096
> 4096

On my Debian wheezy/sid machine with ALSA 1.0.23-3:

$ cat /proc/asound/card*/pcm*p/sub0/prealloc
64
64

Cheers,
Nick

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