[pulseaudio-discuss] State of various rate adjustment patches

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/1/17 pl bossart <bossart.nospam at gmail.com>:
>> I've tested module-loopback by playing to a null-sink and looping its
>> monitor to the real alsa sink. This showed good behaviour, but may be
>> the algorithm I used for module-rtp-recv should also be used here.
>> Does anyone has a better suggestion for a setup to test
>> module-loopback? null-sink and alsa have very stable latencies, so its
>> no good test for module-loopback.
>
> To test the loopback, what I had in mind was enabling a BT sink
> (receving data from somewhere else using A2DP) and playing locally on
> the speakers. That should trigger all kinds of latency issues since
> the transmitter essentially pushes packets without worrying too much
> about time, and the receiver has to do all the synchronization work.
> Should be fairly easy to enable by modifying the
> /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf, but I haven't had the time to test so far
> -Pierre

I don't have any BT equipment, so it would be great if you could test
the changes. Have you experienced any wild rate variations with
bluetooth in the past? If so, the current patch should at least get
rid of annoying big variations. If you're interested in testing, I
could also send a patch to the list where the algorithm I used for
module-rtp-recv is applied module-loopback too, it would be
interesting to see if it also has an improvement.

Maarten