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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: David Shirley <tephra@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: nvidia initial sound being skipped
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:09:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE630BC.6030402@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOc5uwbn4OsKqpvrHUkBzg4k5Wf6YVLNwGm6wH@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikH529TdvgfZX7bYvQVEHuj+1zTJS2YwjKc1yp_@mail.gmail.com>
2010-11-16 10:05 ` nvidia initial sound being skipped David Shirley
2010-11-19  7:18 ` David Shirley
2010-11-19  8:09   ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-11-19  9:53     ` David Shirley
2010-11-19 11:31       ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-20  4:15         ` David Shirley
2010-11-22  7:53           ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-23  3:16             ` David Shirley
2010-11-23  8:49               ` Clemens Ladisch

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