Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

[Pharaoh .]

Hi,
When I play a 44Khz file without using any ALSA plugin like

#aplay -Dhw:0,0 44k.wav

the sound quality is awesome but when I play the same file using dmix,
clicks are introduced.

#aplay -Dplug:dmix 44k.wav

changing period size and buffer size doesn't help. I am testing my ALSA
driver on an OMAP850
based board.

Regards,
Pharaoh.

Re: Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

[Rene Herman]

On 06-11-07 09:16, Pharaoh . wrote:

> When I play a 44Khz file without using any ALSA plugin like
> 
> #aplay -Dhw:0,0 44k.wav
> 
> the sound quality is awesome but when I play the same file using dmix,
> clicks are introduced.
> 
> #aplay -Dplug:dmix 44k.wav
> 
> changing period size and buffer size doesn't help. I am testing my ALSA
> driver on an OMAP850
> based board.

dmix does 48 kHz by default. Does it sound "awesome" when you play a 48 kHz 
file directly to hw:0,0? If that also clicks, the problem will be your 
driver's handling of the 48 kHz rate -- if not, it'll be the resampling, and 
I'll probably need to bow out...

Rene.

Re: Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

[Pharaoh .]

On 11/7/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
> On 06-11-07 09:16, Pharaoh . wrote:
>
> > When I play a 44Khz file without using any ALSA plugin like
> >
> > #aplay -Dhw:0,0 44k.wav
> >
> > the sound quality is awesome but when I play the same file using dmix,
> > clicks are introduced.
> >
> > #aplay -Dplug:dmix 44k.wav
> >
> > changing period size and buffer size doesn't help. I am testing my ALSA
> > driver on an OMAP850
> > based board.
>
> dmix does 48 kHz by default. Does it sound "awesome" when you play a 48 kHz
> file directly to hw:0,0? If that also clicks, the problem will be your
> driver's handling of the 48 kHz rate -- if not, it'll be the resampling, and
> I'll probably need to bow out...
>
> Rene.
>

Hi Rene,
I changed alsa.conf so that dmix does 44.1kHz and tried, without dmix
44.1 and 48kHz files sound 'awesome' but with dmix some clicks appear
at both the rates. Going ahead, I recorded a 8Khz mono sound using my
driver and played it back without dmix, it plays without any clicks,
but use dmix and clicks appear. So basically,
clicks appear at all the sample rates with dmix and without it I could
play all the sample rate files well since my hw supports hw
upsampling.

-Pharaoh.

Re: Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

[Rene Herman]

On 07-11-07 09:49, Pharaoh . wrote:

> I changed alsa.conf so that dmix does 44.1kHz and tried, without dmix
> 44.1 and 48kHz files sound 'awesome' but with dmix some clicks appear
> at both the rates. Going ahead, I recorded a 8Khz mono sound using my
> driver and played it back without dmix, it plays without any clicks,
> but use dmix and clicks appear. So basically,
> clicks appear at all the sample rates with dmix and without it I could
> play all the sample rate files well since my hw supports hw
> upsampling.

Okay -- I don't even use dmix, so will defer to someone else. If there's 
anything special about your driver/hardware such as non-interleaved PCM 
and/or endianness conversions this is probably the time to say so...

Rene.

Re: Audio quality issues with dmix plugin

[Pharaoh .]

On Nov 8, 2007 3:33 AM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:

> On 07-11-07 09:49, Pharaoh . wrote:
>
> > I changed alsa.conf so that dmix does 44.1kHz and tried, without dmix
> > 44.1 and 48kHz files sound 'awesome' but with dmix some clicks appear
> > at both the rates. Going ahead, I recorded a 8Khz mono sound using my
> > driver and played it back without dmix, it plays without any clicks,
> > but use dmix and clicks appear. So basically,
> > clicks appear at all the sample rates with dmix and without it I could
> > play all the sample rate files well since my hw supports hw
> > upsampling.
>
> Okay -- I don't even use dmix, so will defer to someone else. If there's
> anything special about your driver/hardware such as non-interleaved PCM
> and/or endianness conversions this is probably the time to say so...
>
> Rene.
>
No issues as endianness or non-interleaved pcm.