[pulseaudio-discuss] Adding "timeout=0" to module module-suspend-on-idle

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 15.09.09 14:47, Harsha, Priya (priya.harsha at intel.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone help understand this behavior on my system?
> 
> 1. I try playing a 50 min file using paplay and
> it works perfectly fine
> 
> 2. I try playing the following script and it works
> perfectly fine
> for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay
> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; sleep(1); done 
> 
> 3. I try playing the following script (without delay in-between
> each file playback) and it stops during 5th playback
> for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay
> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; done

Stops? In which way? The command just freezes?

> Somehow, if I change in /etc/pulse/default.pa, add "timeout=0" to module module-suspend-on-idle, the 3rd scenario also plays
> perfectly fine.
> 
> Can anyone help explain what could be going wrong in 3rd scenario?
> And why setting timeout=0 solves the issue? Is setting timeout=0
> the right solution?

Could you run PA as "pulseaudio -vvvvvv" and provide me with the last
100 lines of output when this 'stopping' happens?

Lennart

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