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From: Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen@beamcommunications.com>
To: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Stale data at start of audio recording on Freescale i.MX28 EVK with SGTL5000
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:41:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546533B4.90303@beamcommunications.com> (raw)

I was testing the 3.14.19 kernel on Freescale i.MX28 EVK. Since then, 
I've retested and confirmed this also on 3.18-rc4 kernel.

I am doing audio recordings through the SGTL5000 driver as such:

     arecord -D hw:0,1 -f s16 -c 2 -r 16000 -d 5 test.wav

I'm finding that the first 400-500 ms of the saved data is actually 
stale data from the end of the previous recording. To see this, do the 
following:

    1. Provide some test audio input in the LINE INPUT jack. E.g. a 100 
Hz sine wave, or some music.
    2. Record audio with e.g. arecord -D hw:0,1 -f s16 -c 2 -r 16000 -d 
5 test1.wav
    3. Change the test audio input, e.g. a 150 Hz sine wave, or some 
different music.
    4. Record a new audio file with e.g. arecord -D hw:0,1 -f s16 -c 2 
-r 16000 -d 5 test2.wav

Observe that the first 400-500 ms of test2.wav contains stale data from 
the end of the previous recording.

-- 
Craig McQueen

                 reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 22:42 UTC|newest]

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