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Reputation: 655

ALSA: non-interleaved access not supported?

ALSA's snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access function fails when called with SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED access type, reporting that there was an invalid argument. The same code works fine with SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED access.

I tried to change the order of calls to snd_pcm_hw_params_* functions with no effect.

Next I thought that my hardware might not support non-interleaved playback, but according to this post ALSA subsystem will interleave non-interleaved data before sending it to the hardware if it does not support non-interleaved playback itself. Thus, non-interleaved access should always be available.

Why is it then, that non-interleaved access seems not be unsupported?

Following is the code that works fine for interleaved playback, but produces this problem for non-interleaved playback:

int err;
if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_malloc(&hw_params)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: allocate hw_params error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}
if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_any(pb_dev, hw_params)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: hw_params_any error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}
if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(pb_dev, hw_params, (pAudioCtx->sample_fmt < AV_SAMPLE_FMT_U8P) ? SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED : SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: set access type error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}
if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(pb_dev, hw_params, pAudioCtx->channels)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: set channel count error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}

snd_pcm_format_t sample_format;
switch (pAudioCtx->sample_fmt) {
    case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_U8: case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_U8P: sample_format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_U8; break;
    case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16: case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16P: sample_format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16; break;
    case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S32: case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S32P: sample_format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_S32; break;
    case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLT: case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLTP: sample_format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_FLOAT; break;
    case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_DBL: case AV_SAMPLE_FMT_DBLP: sample_format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_FLOAT64; break;
    default: fprintf(stderr, "sampleformat %d is not supported\n", pAudioCtx->sample_fmt);
        throw 5;
}

if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(pb_dev, hw_params, sample_format)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: set sample format error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}
if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(pb_dev, hw_params, (unsigned int*)&pAudioCtx->sample_rate, 0)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: set sample rate error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}

if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params(pb_dev, hw_params)) < 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ALSA: set parameters error: %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
    throw 5;
}

Executing this yields following output:

ALSA: set access type error: Invalid argument

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3575

Answers (1)

CL.
CL.

Reputation: 180020

The hw_params_set_* functions accept only those values that are supported by the device.

Most of the default devices (plughw, default, etc.) support automatic conversions, and thus accept all formats. hw devices do not.

Upvotes: 5

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