[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #464: ekiga does not play well with pulseaudio

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#464: ekiga does not play well with pulseaudio
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 Reporter:  mariofutire         |       Owner:  ossman
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:        
Component:  alsa-plugins-pulse  |    Severity:  normal
 Keywords:  ekiga, alsa, pulse  |  
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 I am reporting here that ekiga does not play well when running under
 pulseaudio.
 ekiga does not have a pulse backend, but it is using the alsa-to-pulse
 module.

 I am not an expert, but since ekiga plays well when running directly to
 alsa, this seems to be a problem related to the alsa-to-pulse module.

 The most evident case is when ekiga plays the ring tone (a wav file) and
 they keep opening and closing the audio stream (many times per second). As
 I said, when playing directly to alsa, there are no problems, but when
 pulse is active, one can hear many "glitch" which seem to indicate that
 the open/close operations introduce a discontinuity in the flow.

 I know, that without a concrete example it is hard to analyze, but maybe
 more expert people might have an idea.

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