[Stk] Stream underflow errors on Windows

Matt Day matt.day at york.ac.uk
Wed Jun 12 01:42:50 PDT 2013


Hi Gary,

Thanks for the suggestion, but even with 64 buffers of 4096 frames I 
still see underflow.

Matt


Gary Scavone wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You might try modifying the "number of buffers" parameter.
>
> --gary
>
> On 2013-06-10, at 11:15 AM, Matt Day <matt.day at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> I suspect this may be a common issue although my searches did not reveal 
>> any discussion of it. Apologies if I have missed something.
>>
>> When building applications under Windows that use full-duplex realtime 
>> audio, I always see stream underflow errors which result in 
>> discontinuities in the output audio. I have tried increasing the buffer 
>> size, and this usually reduces how often it occurs, but it will still 
>> invariably occur once. The issue can be seen just by building and 
>> running the duplex example under the free version of Visual Studio. I 
>> have run this example on 3 different machines and all three exhibit the 
>> issue (either running WinXP or WinXP x64 edition).
>>
>> I would be most grateful if anyone can point me to any information on 
>> the issue and why it might occur.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Matt
>>
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