[mythtv-users] audio stuttering issues

Gerald Brandt gbr at majentis.com
Wed Feb 26 12:44:44 UTC 2014



On Tue Feb 25 22:42:12 2014, John Baab wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:
>> Feb 25 18:26:24 frontend-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[2076]: E
>> CoreContext audio/audiooutputalsa.cpp:242 (IncPreallocBufferSize) ALSA: Try
>> to manually increase audio buffer with: echo 192 | sudo tee
>> /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/s
>
> Run that command when you aren't currently playing any video,
> otherwise the buffer will be locked.
>
> I've done a write up on creating an upstart job to automagically do
> this for you: http://baablogic.net/drupal/node/21
> Every now and then my buffers seem to get reset, I'd love to hear if
> there is a more elegant solution to this.

Somehow I didn't get the first email with the echo command.  I'm 
assuming it's

echo 192 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/prealloc

Is that correct?

Gerald



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