[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 0/3] Fighting rewinds

[David Henningsson]

[adding gstreamer-devel to the discussion]

On 2010-12-09 17:18, pl bossart wrote:
>> However, the problem is quite complex and there does not seem to be one
>> perfect fix, it's more of an optimisation problem. GStreamer in particular
>> sends out many small data packages, and PulseAudio does not handle that very
>> well.
>
> That's the default behavior, but you can cut the traffic by using the
> latency-time property in pulsesink. This makes sure you send bigger
> buffers, up to the 64k limit that PulseAudio has internally.

Thanks, that's good to know. Now, I'm just playing a simple audio file 
with totem, so obviously we want high latency and large packet sizes, 
but I'm not a gstreamer developer - do you have an idea of what can be 
at fault here? Should totem specify a big packet size (regardless of 
sink?), or can we just change the default packet size to something big 
for people not requesting anything in particular?

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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