hi, There is a very annoying problem with pulseaudio + xine:
1) In the first 4 seconds of an audiostream or video+audio there are one to five significant stutters (at least with xine or paplay over network) 2) Pausing a video- or audiofile, played by xine or amarok will freeze at least the second or third time and xine/amarok had to be killed. (amarok using phonon-backend-xine and xine using pulseaudio). To repoduce the freezing you had to pause and resume the stream at most 6-10 times. my system: - 64bit multicore - opensuse 11.1 + packman reporitories kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 x86_64 (but exactly the same behavior had accured with pulseaudio+xine on opensuse 10.2 on 32bit) rpms: pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.5 libpulse0-0.9.12-9.5 libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1 libxine1-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1 phonon-4.2.0-40.18 phonon-backend-xine-4.1.3-4.1 libphonon4-4.2.0-40.18 I have found some indications that it might be fixable: SOURCE: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Pause-unpause-problem-(amarok-stops-playing-tracks-bug)-p22049931.html QUOTE START It doesn't take more than a few days using xine + pulse combination to note (1) the stuttering when starting playback and (2) the pause/resume lockup. So i can only guess that people might not be using (testing) what they are packaging. Anyway, my suggestion to distros is: pack the latest 1.1.16.2 release + pause/resume patch (changeset 2208e465026c) and make it available to users asap because it fixes several lockups. You may also include that workaround to remove stuttering from audio-only streams if you want. QUOTE END Is there any chance the packman team could build a patched pulseaudio packet and provide a rpm? thanx AVVIL _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
