Re: Error: Could not load libibmeci.so

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm what Lukas has observed. Even with a working .asoundrc
file, the atcleci library exits witht he assert failure using soubnd
blaster live cards. I think there are two possible solutions though. 

As Lukas points out, it works if you have written the hardware
parameters prior to attempting the call. I suspect on multi-channel
cards with multiple possible buffers, writing the parameters for
format, access mode, rate and channels reduces the possible candidates
sufficiently for the call to work. However, I've also noticed with SB
live cards, the value returned is very small and too small for
reliable TTS performance. 

A possible alternative solution would be to test the result of the
call and if it has returned an error state, make a call to the
function with the _max extension. Alternatively, just use the function
which returns the max size, though this may result in sizes which are
too large?

Tim

Lukas Loehrer writes:
 > 
 > T. V. Raman writes ("Re: Error: Could not load libibmeci.so"):
 > > The run time assertion is probably because you have a newer ALSA?
 > > Which ALSA version do you have?
 > 
 > No solution in this post, just some observations:
 > 
 > Just saw that you went back to the call without the _max in
 > version 21.45 of the atcleci.cpp. This does not work for me either with alsa
 > 1.0.11. I believe it used to work with earlier versions, even
 > with 1.0.10. From my earlier experimens, I assumed that the presence
 > of an .asoundrc file with buffer- and period-size in it would set
 > those sizes to fixed values and thus the call without the _max should
 > work. This is apparently not so. What appears to work however is to
 > write the hardware parameters before querying the buffer size, as
 > done in Tim's test utility. I really wish there were more detailed documentation for
 > alsa.
 > 
 > Best regards, Lukas
 > 
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