[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #435: severe and frequent stuttering

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#435: severe and frequent stuttering
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  Reporter:  brian_j_murrell  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon           |    Severity:  major  
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by brian_j_murrell):

 Replying to [comment:3 lennart]:
 > Sorry, but Creative sund cards are unfortunately not well supported on
 Linux.

 Interesting.

 > Creative is very uncooperative and doesn't supply Free Software
 developers with documentation.

 I was not aware that Creative were amongst this crowd.  Unfortunate.

 > The result of this is that only the most basic support for emu10k is
 available and a lot
 > of more advanced stuff that PA needs (like accurate timing) is
 broken/incomplete.

 I'm certainly not doubting you on this, but for the record of this ticket
 and anyone else who comes across it, why does it work so well with just
 plain ALSA driving it?

 > Please blame Creative for that and don't make the mistake to buy
 Creative again.

 Well, I definitely make a point of not buying from companies that engage
 in these tactics and sound cards are cheap and plentiful, so that probably
 won't be difficult.

 I guess in the meanwhile, I will swap my cards and relegate that EMU10k to
 being my (viop) headset soundcard driven by ALSA directly and use the:

 {{{
 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev
 a2)
 }}}

 as my main audio sound card.  Will I have better luck with that device and
 PA?

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