[pulseaudio-discuss] More on the native protocol complexity

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Rafal Wojtczuk at 26/04/10 15:47 did gyre and gimble:
> Hmm, I tried loading module-rtp-send in the client and module-rtp-recv in
> the server/trusted pulseaudio. The quality of sound was good, for a couple
> of seconds; then it deteriorated, with dropouts and high frequencies
> dominating. This is repeatable. Nothing relevant in the logs (with 
> set-log-level 4), CPU load low; renice -20 on both pulseaudios does not help 
> (and it was not needed for perfect sound over the native protocol). Both 
> sides pulseaudio-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64, connected by Xen vif network. Do I 
> miss anything obvious ?

I've heard several users report similar results for the RTP stuff. It's
not had much love of late so can only assume that one of the core
changes of late has caused this kind of problem. I don't think anyone's
looked at it too seriously so not really much to go on there I'm afraid :(

Col

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