[LAU] ffplay and alsa buffers

[Len Ovens]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015, Peter P. wrote:

> 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
>
Two things:

Try 48k SR. It shouldn't matter.... but (the video standard is 48k)

Is the wlan doing anything at all? I once had this same problem that I 
could only fix by unloading the wlan kernel module. It seemed it was 
scanning for APs about once a minute.


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Len Ovens
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