[PATCH] Allow pulseaudio writes in larger chunks

[David Henningsson]

On 08/18/2011 02:46 PM, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 14:07 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
>> The previous patch (posted several months ago) for improving pulsesink
>> writes was rejected, due to causing underruns when playing wma files.
>> I've been able to reproduce that error here, and have come up with a new
>> version of the patch which does not underruns in that case.
>>
>> In short, the behavioural difference is
>>    - without the patch, waiting and write size were both never above segsize
>>    - with the old patch, both waiting and write size could grow up to
>> bufsize.
>>    - with the new patch, waiting is done up to segsize. However when
>> waiting is done, it writes as much as it can.
>>
>> Also, the previous patch was blamed to "ignore the latency-time" of the
>> sink. This statement is false, at least for the new version of the
>> patch. The latency is controlled by setting tlength and minreq
>> parameters of pa_buffer_attr, which in turn controls the behaviour of
>> pa_stream_writable_size.
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for still working on this but could you put the patch in
> Bugzilla, including your explanation of the various parts of the patch?

Okay, now added to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641072

I hope this is enough to get "the ball rolling" - i e reviewing by 
relevant people, and finally committing it (hopefully).

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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