[pulseaudio-discuss] PA_SINK_IDLE

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 08.06.09 19:11, pl bossart (bossart.nospam at gmail.com) wrote:

Heya,

> While I am at it, what was the rationale for the new PA_SINK_IDLE
> state introduced in 0.9.15. 

That state existed much longer than that.

> From what I understand this is a running
> sink with no incoming data (no non-corked inputs). 

That is correct.

> But the state transitions in alsa-sink essentially consider this
> state as a PA_SINK_RUNNING one.  So if you have a suspended sink and
> add an input in corked mode, the sink will go to IDLE mode, which
> will start transmitting silence and after a timeout the sink will go
> to suspend again. D'oh! Why not suspend if you don't have anything
> to transmit?  

mdule-suspend-on-idle needs a bit of fixing I guess so that it doesn't
resume a device prematurely if the stream that is create is actually
created in corked mode. 

I have now added this to my todo list. Should be a simple fix.

Cheers Pierre,

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