[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Patches for 0.9.15

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ozan Çağlayan at 09/06/09 09:39 did gyre and gimble:
> Colin Guthrie wrote On 09-06-2009 11:08:
>> This contains 28 patches in total, the 27 original patches suggested
>> by Lennart, minus an SHM one which was causing me crashes on startup,
>> plus a further two that Lennart didn't originally include but which we
>> later discovered on IRC are needed by other patches already included.
> 
> What's the situation with the following revert, did you have
> positive/negative feedback about it?
> 
> From 698034f58ac6d85e386155e3ed71044b8dd0edf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Colin Guthrie <cguthrie at mandriva.org>
> Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:48:46 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 105/105] Revert "core: when applying delay memblockq
> take monitored sink latency into account"
> 
> This is being tracked in https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49947
> This commit seems to have caused problems in skype, so we'll try without
> it and see what the users say :)
> 
> This reverts commit a4cea4e469d3baf27890820eba030b7acdf63daa.

Well I got very mixed results with this revert. It did seem to help me 
use skype and this is where my bisect ended up. I've not pushed this 
revert into our official packages yet (it was in cooker for a while but 
no-one said it helped so I've now dropped it.

I did a little more testing with skype and managed to make three test 
calls in a row without any problem, so I've asked people on the above 
linked mandriva bug to test the latest version with these 27 patches to 
see if it helps in practical usage of skype (my testing is perhaps a 
little contrived!).


On the positive front, one of the Skype linux devs has tried to contact 
me after I made some comments on their forums about being vaguely 
involved with pulse dev and wanting to help advise them on the best 
implementation. Sadly he tried to contact me via skype so I've only just 
seen it. Perhaps their next version will be all singing and dancing :)

Col

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