[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 47899] Stuttering when using "Simultaneous output"

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47899

--- Comment #2 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> 2012-03-26 07:07:55 PDT ---
Comment from davydm on 2012-03-24:

I'd love to know the status of this problem. I'm running Linux Mint 12 here,
with installed pulseaudio version 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1, experiencing exactly this
problem with games like World of Goo and Osmos, from the Humble Bundle.

Leaving the volume control app open "fixes" the problem, but I saw mention at
http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?838648-Audio+will+stutter+unless+Volume+Control+is+running
of possible buffering or priority issues. I've bumped the pulseaudio process's
nice as high as it can go -- as well as, just for chuckles, ionice. No change.
If this is a buffering issue, is there some way I can get pulseaudio to run
with these settings by default? I'm not seeing any downside to this solution --
in fact, if the volume control app "fixes" the issue whilst it's open, I'm
curious to know why the daemon hasn't just been modified to run as it does when
the volume control app is open? I can't be the only user pulling my hair out
about this and I tend to use simultaneous output so I can switch, with
hardware, between usb headphones and my desktop speakers (night/day time), so
it's quite important to me, at least (:

Let me know if there is any diagnostic I can run or any patches I can try. I am
a programmer, but I would be the first to admit that I don't know the first
thing about the PA code base or architecture.

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