[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] pulse: Fix invalid buffer pointer return value

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 09/01/10 09:00 did gyre and gimble:
> The pulse ALSA plugin has been known, for a while, to not work properly,
> causing underruns, hangs etc. I sat down yesterday trying to figure it
> out, and I'm pretty certain this patch improves the situation, but I
> don't mind getting some help testing it before it is committed upstream.
> 
> Related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485488
> 
> The patch is for the alsa-plugins tree at git.alsa-projects.org.

I applied this to 1.0.22 (cleanly) and sadly it's not helping my test
case using mpg123.

I'm sure you've discussed the problem with Daniel (who pointed me at
mpg123 in the first place), but I do still get crazy startups. It seems
to be pretty stable after startup tho', so it's maybe just an
initialisation issue?

Before the patch mpg123 would hang once in a while. I've tried to get it
to do the same after the patch, but so far it's not hung so I think
after the initial startup it does seem to stablise better than before.

Now there are of course potential bugs in mpg123's alsa implem. I've not
looked at this at all - just using it blindly as a test case.

HTHs

Col

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