OrangePiPc | Alsa | play/vlc skips a few seconds of the audio

[Mr. Fennec]

Hi, I am building a voice assistant on OrangePiPc on latest Armbian 23.11.1 Bookworm \l

root@orangepipc:/etc/alsa# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Codec [H3 Audio Codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

For some reason when I plan an audio file using cvlc or play cli tools, about 1 first second of audio is skiped for some reason. I guess this time DAC is initialized. How I can solve this issue?

[Gunjan Gupta]

Shot in the dark - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/171925

[Mr. Fennec]

This stackexchange answer contains information about the pulseaudio suspend-on-idle workaround, but I don't use the pulseaudio, I don't start pulseaudio server. I use the alsa directly.