Re: problems: flushing during snd_pcm_wait()

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:

>At Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:25:19 +1000,
>James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
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>>Hello
>>I have an application that has many different threads.
>>The sound card's PCM buffer is full during playback, and one thread is 
>>currently in snd_pcm_wait() waiting for enough space to appear in the 
>>buffer before doing the next snd_pcm_write().
>>A different thread wants to flush the buffer. There are two types of 
>>flush: -
>>1) Immeadiately empty the buffer.
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>snd_pcm_drop() ?
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>>2) Stop accepting snd_pcm_write() commands until the current buffer has 
>>drained.
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>snd_pcm_drain() ?
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>Takashi
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Thankyou, I will use snd_pcm_drop(), but as a side note, what actually 
does "snd_pcm_reset()" do.
Just resetting delay to 0 does not make much sense to me.

Cheer




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