[linux-audio-dev] Merging digital sampling sessions

Wolfgang Woehl tito at rumford.de
Sun Dec 11 14:06:08 UTC 2005


David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:

> arecord -D spdif -f cd
>
> Ok, and here is the rub: playback is not perfect, and neither seems
> to be the sampling.  Probably at times error interpolation sets in,
> probably at times samples get lost or replicated.  Not much, perhaps
> once per minute or so.  This leads to audible clicks, of course.

You're assuming a flawed spdif stream and, well, people keep suggesting 
changing the spdif cable. It's supposed to have an effect on stream 
quality worth mentioning. Don't know myself.

But try setting the c-media card to respect the incoming spdif clock. 
That should make a difference.

Wolfgang




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