[LAU] ffplay and alsa buffers

Hi list, I am playing a http .m3u8 videostream with ffplay version 1.0.10 on Debian testing and am getting drop outs about twice a minute, with the following message being posted to the command line: ALSA lib pcm.c:7905:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred This happes regardless of internet connection or used soundcard. /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params lists: access: MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED format: S32_LE subformat: STD channels: 18 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 1024 buffer_size: 2048 I have not yet found a way to raise ffplay's playback buffers and would be glad to hear about any ideas how to get to a more fluent playback. thanks! P