[pulseaudio-discuss] Frequent trivially-reproducible client hangs with stable-queue PA

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Feb 23 13:38:39 PST 2010


On 22 Feb 2010, Paul Menzel stated:

> Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 18:50 +0000 schrieb Nix:
>> Ever since I started using PA 0.9.21 (and possibly before: it's been
>> long enough that my memory has faded), lots of applications have started
>> hanging hard when fast-forwarded/rewound. This includes MPD and every
>> single video player I own capable of fullscreen playback. As you might
>> imagine, having to stop PA playing back sound and forcing all my video
>> and music players not to use PA renders it... less useful than it might
>> be, and the constant need to pay attention to ALSA volume levels makes
>> PA's otherwise admirable ALSA volume-level frotzing annoying as
>> well. (I'd use the ALSA->PA plugin, but as reported earlier, this
>> doesn't work either, stuttering like crazy and frequently locking up.
>> It may be that the ALSA plugin lockup is a special case of this one.)
> [~]
>
> Is there anything in the log files [1]?

I forgot they existed (my default assumption where anything running as a
user is concerned: I keep forgetting about the LOG_USER facility).


... no, not a line.



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