[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Patches for 0.9.15

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 09 Jun 2009 11:49:22 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> '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!).
Hi Colin.

When testing with skype have you tried making any long calls? Mine works for about half an hour and then I can no longer hear the other end of the call. Using ALSA works forever, it seems. A reboot is the only cure I've found so far.

Thanks,

Mark


> 
> 
> 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
>