[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #194: $PULSE_SERVER: permanent loss of audio in client when facing a transient network problem (networking / virtualization)

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#194: $PULSE_SERVER: permanent loss of audio in client when facing a transient
network problem (networking / virtualization)
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  Reporter:  peter        |       Owner:  lennart        
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new            
 Milestone:               |   Component:  clients        
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  network virtual
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Comment(by Rudd-O):

 I agree.  It makes sense to keep subsystems independent, so if an app
 casting audio to PulseAudio sees the pulse server die or be inaccessible,
 this should not cause the app itself to malfunction horribly -- the app
 should recover gracefully and continue doing what it was doing when the
 pulse server is restarted.

 It's beyond ridiculous to depend on a local pulse server (facilitating an
 often-secondary function of audio playback) just so apps don't segfault or
 malfunction.  It's good engineering and good design to make apps robust
 against failure by making the libraries they depend on, do the right thing
 when something goes wrong.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/194#comment:8>
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