[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #798: Delays while playing music on the network via wifi

[PulseAudio]

#798: Delays while playing music on the network via wifi
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  Reporter:  vectart  |       Owner:  lennart              
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                  
 Milestone:           |   Component:  daemon               
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  network, wifi, server
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Comment(by bgamari):

 Here's a simple throughput test confirming the plentiful amount of
 bandwidth on the network,
 {{{
 [0921 ben at venus ~] $ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=512k count=100 | nc
 mars.local 9999100+0 records in
 100+0 records out
 52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 48.8073 s, 1.1 MB/s
 }}}
 With another process running on the pulseaudio server,
 {{{
 [0921 ben at mars ~] $ nc -l 9999 | dd bs=512k of=/dev/null
 0+69938 records in
 0+69938 records out
 52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 52.4389 s, 1000 kB/s
 }}}
 In short, the network can carry at least 8 Mbit/second. A raw audio stream
 (48kHz, 24 bits/sample, 2 channel) on the other hand should require only
 2.19 Mbit/second. Unless I am missing something, network bandwidth does
 not explain the poor performance of network streaming in PulseAudio.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/798#comment:7>
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