[Bug 692953] alsa modules are silent or noisy after several hours of use

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692953
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | 1.0.9

--- Comment #129 from Thomas DEBESSE <thomas.debesse at rcf.fr> 2013-09-10 19:16:03 UTC ---
I think our hunch about alsasink is looking more and more plausible.

Yes !

I have another information. You said in Comment # 115:

> Also, when I went to the Texas Instruments GStreamer Wiki,
> they suggested using alsasink with the sync property set to
> 'false'

In fact, when I encounter the bug more than two year ago (with Gstreamer 0.10),
I found the "sync=false" trick in the Texas Instruments GStreamer Wiki and
other similar documents that mimicked it.

Maybe the bug was never found because everyone cheats with "sync=false" instead
of report it. If you play less than a day, you can never have a problem using
"sync=false".

I never use "sync=false" because I understand why, but because without it it
would not work. So I thought it was the right thing to do because it is simply
the only way to get something that looks like a normal operation.

It happened to me to teach "sync=false" as a solution to others believing that
it was normal and the right way to do it.

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