From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: nvidia initial sound being skipped Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:09:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE630BC.6030402@ladisch.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4542F2433F for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:07:51 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: David Shirley Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org David Shirley wrote: > > I am using an nvidia MCP78 to connect to a Denon 1910 AVR via HDMI. > > > > I was using Kernel 2.6.32.21 and noticed that the initial few seconds > > of my songs was being chopped off. > > I just want to say I upgraded to kernel 2.6.36 today and still miss > the first 0.5seconds or so of the sound output. > ... > both HDMI and SPDIF exhibit the same problem. Apparently, your receiver needs even more time to detect that some sound is playing; there's nothing that the computer could do about it. Try playing some silence before starting playing music. (This requires a software mixer like dmix or PulseAudio.) Regards, Clemens