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Subject: sound: aplay\arecord audio frame flow
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Hi All,

Is there anyway in the kernel sound subsystem to know when the
application calls =E2=80=98aplay=E2=80=99 and anything starts playing?

Also for arecord\aplay, Is there any way from kernel's point of view
to know when it receives for example the first and last audio frames?


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Thanks,
Sekhar