Audio on NEO Core Mainline

[Splitice]

We are in the process of migrating from NanoPI NEO's to NanoPI NEO Core's as part of that we are moving to mainline NEO Air / NEO Core images. I noticed that audio playback is soft / fades in at the start of the file. This only seems to occur on mainline images.

 

Thoughts?

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Mathew Heard said:

This only seems to occur on mainline images.

 Mainline kernel is not quite finished and is not recommended to use in production. ATM it is somewhere in a testing/bug hunting stage. A month. Few months.

[Splitice]

Unfortunately legacy has it's own problems on NEO Core too (e.g one big one is that it takes >3m to boot, I suspect it's trying to get the wifi/bt up).

 

To those who find this thread a workaround is to transmit 500ms of blank wav, then wait 3 seconds then start the actual playback. This appears to prime the audio circuitry (DAC?), perhaps it's power saving. Priming appears to last for 20-30 seconds.

[guidol]

3 hours ago, Mathew Heard said:

To those who find this thread a workaround is to transmit 500ms of blank wav, then wait 3 seconds then start the actual playback. This appears to prime the audio circuitry (DAC?), perhaps it's power saving. Priming appears to last for 20-30 seconds.

thats the same with the NanoPi Duo

[yam1]

You could use alsamixer to increase the volume, the default volume is too low. This is different from the default on the legacy which is close to 100%.

[Johhny Blue]

I have been playing around with this as it is really annoying and have found that (on my board) by unmuting mic1, playback will be instant - but there is a loud pop/click.

 

Does anyone know how to remove the click/pop?

 

J.