Hacking native 8kHz sample rates

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As pointed out here, recent changes to the I2S driver for the bcm2835 kernel mean that it is no longer possible to get native 8 kHz sample rates out of the box. Whilst it is possible to use the dmix plugin to resample to/from 8 kHz, it will increase latency. You can use a command similar to this to get software resampled 8 kHZ rates - with this example using an 8 kHz sound file named "fileName.8kHz.wav" :

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aplay -Dplug:dmix fileName.8kHz.wav

If you absolutely have to have low latency 8 kHz native playback, then here is on esolution, but it requires hacking !

Firstly setup your linux kernel source code and compile it : http://forum.audioinjector.net/viewtopi ... =10&t=3099

Now you should be ready to hack !

You need to edit the file :

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sound/soc/bcm/audioinjector-pi-soundcard.c 

In the function snd_audioinjector_pi_soundcard_hw_params change this line :

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return snd_soc_dai_set_bclk_ratio(cpu_dai, 1);

To this :

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return snd_soc_dai_set_tdm_slot(cpu_dai, 0x1, 0x1, 2, 512);

Now edit the file :

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sound/soc/bcm/bcm2835-i2s.c

Remove the slot count guards :

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		if (hweight_long((unsigned long) rx_mask) != 2
		    || hweight_long((unsigned long) tx_mask) != 2)
			return -EINVAL;

It will look something like this :

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		// if (hweight_long((unsigned long) rx_mask) != 2
		//     || hweight_long((unsigned long) tx_mask) != 2)
		// 	return -EINVAL;

Compile the kernel, install it ... and whalah ! You will have mono native 8 kHz sample rates

Enjoy
Matt