Good to know! In my case it was a pulse issue, and removing parts of this stuff fixed it, but who know what else may happen J At least now gr-dsd works, I can decode DMR transmissions with it in relative good quality, and also other audio applications should cause no trouble. Not that I do very much audio stuff, for receiving audio usually I use Windows / HDSDR. And I only can second your “thanks guys” message. Great work, gnuradio is a fantastic tool that opens whole new worlds! Ralph. From: Remington Furman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 5:42 AM
To: Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Cc: Marcus D. Leech; Tom Rondeau; Christopher Hallinan; GNURadio Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] First time user - fm radio tutorial has choppy audio Ok, here are the contents of my ~/.gnuradio/config.conf:
[audio_alsa]
default_input_device = default
default_output_device = default
#period_time = 0.010 # in seconds (default)
period_time = 0.100 # in seconds
nperiods = 4 # total buffering = period_time * nperiods
#verbose = false verbose = true
The actual change I made was to increase audio_alsa/period_time from 0.010 to 0.100. Play around with it until it works on your system. My only guess is that perhaps the default ALSA buffer sizes are small enough that they are often consumed by ALSA before GnuRadio will fill them.
PS. Thanks to everyone for your fantastic work on building this whole system and answering all the questions on the list. I've been learning a ton reading this over the last year, and I appreciate it. I'll try not to be so shy next time I know something that might be useful to others. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Remington Furman <address@hidden> wrote: Hi, I had this same aU problem a few months ago on Linux Mint, but was able to resolve it by editing the default ALSA settings in ~/.gnuradio/config.conf . I will send detailed notes on the exact fix I made when I get home, but I just found this page also describing the fix: (Increase 'nperiods' under [audio_alsa]) After the config change ALSA audio worked with my own WBFM flowgraph and all the sample flowgraphs that were previously broken for me. Apologies for not sending something to the list when I found the problem. I knew it would have saved folks from some hair pulling. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras <address@hidden> wrote: No chance, I do not get any stable audio performance, I assume the Kubuntu
sound system is defective somehow. It is not about sampling rates, the pitch
is correct, just choppy. When calling the dial tone script repeatedly,
sometimes it works, sometimes it causes garbled sounds, then again it works,
with one attempt after another without doing anything else.
Update: Right now I was so brave to uninstall some pulse library stuff, and
what should I say, the stuttering is gone, DMR is not decoding 100% fine,
but I assume now it is a matter of fine tuning the receiver chain and
decoder, audio itself looks OK. Thank you very much for putting me into the
right direction! How can find such a load of BS its way into an official and
widely used Linux distribution?!
Ralph.
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