mindracer
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Sound recording crackling with USB sound

Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:28 pm

With arecord, aplay, streaming with ffmpeg rtp to another server, recorded sound crackles or sounds a little robotic.

I tested the Daffodil USB sound dongle on a ubuntu linux machine, and records/plays no problem.

I've searched forums, people seem to have crackling issues while play media on the Pi, I just want to record sound and stream it over network.

Anyone who has a USB sound experience this, and/or know a solution?

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Re: Sound recording crackling with USB sound

Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:04 pm

Its the Pi's USB, it drops packets, presently being worked on. There is a fudge where you append

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dwc_otg.speed=1
to the cmdline.txt file in the firmware partition (/boot on a running pi). It switches USB down to V1.1, slows all USB down and the Ethernet. It does cure some audio problems though.
Don't judge Linux by the Pi.......
I must not tread on too many sacred cows......

mindracer
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Re: Sound recording crackling with USB sound

Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:35 am

Thanks, I'll try it out tomorrow, didnt know theres USB problems :(

For anyone interested theres this thread I found
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... &start=225

mindracer
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Re: Sound recording crackling with USB sound

Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:29 pm

It worked! Thank god :)

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