Hi Tanu I guess you are right, I am able to play the same beep.wav with paplay and pacmd play-file without any issues. seems like issues with gstreamer (pulsesink? ) any hints .. ? BR\\ Himanshu <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <<a href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi">tanuk@iki.fi</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 19:52 +0530, Himanshu Chug wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to play very short beep (.wav) few milliseconds file, the > behavior is inconsistent while I am trying to play with gst-launch sometimes > the it plays fine and other times it wont. > Also I can see excessive rewind requests , "D: protocol-native.c: > Requesting rewind due to rewrite." (logs attached) > > I am using PA 0.9.21 , I suspect this as an ALSA bug and rewinds should work > as the same use-case was working for me before, but I dont find anyway to > prove this to Alsa ppl (may be I am worng?? ) > with aplay we are able to playback the same beep file constantly. any > idea/pointers can be helpful ? </div></div>I'd check if the same problem occurs with paplay. I'd guess that at least the excessive rewinds are a gstreamer-specific problem. -- Tanu _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>