[linux-audio-user] terratec aureon 5.1 usb and jack

[Sebastian Gutsfeld]

Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> writes:

> Hallo,
> Sebastian Gutsfeld hat gesagt: // Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote:
>
>> recently I bought a Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB for my Thinkpad R32 (has an
>> Intel 82801CA-ICH3 onboard). The Intel is card 0, the Terratec card 1. I
>> have no problems playing some MP3s with xmms or "alsaplayer -d hw:1 -d
>> 1024" (although I don't know why I have to use "-f 1024", I just played
>> with the parameters) over the Terratec. But whenever I play through jack
>> the sound begins to crackle, which is really annoying.
>> 
>> And here is how qjackctl starts jackd:
>> 
>> ,----[ .jackdrc ]
>> | /usr/bin/jackstart -R -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p256 -n2 -S
>> `----
>
> Does the crackle go away with higher number of periods (-p512 or
> similar)? And did you try playing with -n3, too?

No change with -p512 or -p1024, but -n3 did the trick :-)

I don't know why I didn't play with the number of periods paramter :-/

Thank you.

   Sebastian