pulseaudio comments

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Friday 2007-10-26 02:09:38 Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using F8t3 with the rawhide updates for a while now, and it has 
> mostly been a positive experience. However, pulseaudio is a source of 
> irritation, so here are some comments.
> 
> 1. I have configured seamonkey to play a sound (/usr/share/sounds/info.wav to 
> specific) when I receive mail. Unfortunately, this makes pulseaudio loop using 
> 99% cpu (see strace output below), and soon run out of cpu time and die.

I saw similar behaviour a couple of times.

> 
> 2. pulseaudio appears to make mplayer video playback jerky. (I am using mplayer 
> -ao oss as a workaround.)

xine lags a lot too. Whan I hit pause the sound continues for about 0.5…1 seconds.

I removed pulseaudio*alsa* and all is back to normal.

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