[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #237: Sound files larger than 1.7MB cannot be played using esound's sample caching

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#237: Sound files larger than 1.7MB cannot be played using esound's sample
caching
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 Reporter:  TheMuso          |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  high             |   Milestone:         
Component:  module-esound-*  |    Severity:  major  
 Keywords:                   |  
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 When attempting to play a GNOME sound event, with a sound file larger than
 1.7MB, a caching error occurrs, since GNOME uses esound's sample caching
 mechanism to load and then play the sounds when needed.

 From further exmination of both PulseAudio and esound code, it seems that
 esound dynamically allocates memory as needed for each sample, whereas
 Pulse's esound compatibility module has a fixed maximum sample size of
 1024000.

 If this was not a design decision, then what are the chances of getting
 this changed? I don't believe there should be limits to the size of sound
 event files for users, should they choose to have big/long playing files.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/237>
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