Eli,

> All four listings on that page work for me.

Thats strange to say the least: In the code I posted the link to I had to
initialize the "dir" variable (to zero) to get rid of an initial delay (in
the "snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near( )" function).   Compiler differences ?
(I'm using gcc)

Besides that, the code worked alright for me too.   Up until I changed the
sample rate from 44100 to 8000 that is.  Than the sound became much shorter.

> So I have to wonder if you've introduced a bug in your code
> changes which you have described but not shared.

I just re-started with the code I took from the link I posted, and changed
the "val = 44100;" line into
val = 8000;
dir = 0;

Thats all I need to get the (much) shorter sound.

And just now, after re-adding the code to measure the time from the start of
the loop until after "snd_pcm_drain()", I noticed that even with the
origional bitrate of 44100 the sound now only goes for 4.3 seconds ...

> You might have more luck in a more general Linux group
> (comp.os.linux.misc gets a fair amount of traffic) or a programming
> group (comp.lang.c is active).  But include your actual code.

I have been thinking of that too, but I currently regard the problem as
being ALSA, and possibly Raspberry Pi specific, not one of the language
itself.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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