KDE sound delays (solved hopefully)

[Colin J Thomson]

On Monday 24 Dec 2012 09:14:27 Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 12/24/2012 09:04 AM, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been suffering for a lag in the sound events for a few releases now
> > which seemed to be getting progressively worse, up two/three seconds at
> > times.
> > 
> > I thought I would give kde 4.9.90 a test so installed F18 RC and in the
> > meantime updated to 4.9.95. Alas the problem was still there.
> > 
> > Over the past months I had been working to try and find a solution to this
> > and scouring kde.bugs but never came up with an answer until now.
> > 
> > Today I read that Pulseaudio 3.0 had been released so I rebuilt the F19
> > RPM
> > and success! the terrible delays have gone :-) still testing but it looks
> > promising.
> > 
> > Maybe this will help others who have such bad delays in the sound events.
> 
> See "pulseaudio-backport" repo on
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/
> 
> I've already put up pa-3.0 builds for f18.  may end up doing f17 too
> sometime, we'll see.

I was not aware of that site, thanks for the info Rex,

Colin
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