[pulseaudio-discuss] Audio degradation and Underruns when changing sinks on a 'live stream'

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 09:49 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
[...]
> It very much should work as you expect, but somewhere along the lines
> something is messing up :s
> 
> I'm not sure of the top of my head but I just wanted to reply to you to
> let you know that the move itself should not be affecting underruns etc.
> 
> Can I ask if you are using the 0.9.22 vanilla or the patches from
> "stable-queue" git branch (in particular David's "Fighting Rewinds"
> patches)? I would very much recommend using stable-queue. Also there are
> corresponding patches in David's set to the GST side too. I'd first
> ensure you have all of these patches installed to see if this helps your
> situation.

I'm not sure what the cause is here, but this is sometimes reproducible
on repeated switches between profiles that create new sinks on PA master
(at least it was a few weeks ago). Haven't yet gotten down to tracking
down the problem.

Cheers,
Arun