[pulseaudio-discuss] rewind and underrun issues on start of playback

[Colin Guthrie]

Hi,

'Twas brillig, and Dan Muresan at 03/05/11 19:51 did gyre and gimble:
>> I think you are correct in that there is an alsa bug.  It seems that
>> pulseaudio 0.9.14 didn't exhibit this bug in the driver, but pulseaudio
>> 0.9.22 does.
> 
> I asked before, but for some reason never got an answer from this
> list: is there a simple way to disable rewinds? They seem to be
> related to excessive real-time CPU usage, causing rlimit_rttime to be
> exceeded (and pulse to be KILL'ed by the kernel).

>From earlier in this thread:

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 01/05/11 08:22 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 15:38 -0700, Baek Chang wrote:
>> > Is there a way to prevent these rewinds/underruns when starting
playback?
>
> Not to my knowledge, except by changing the code.


I'm pretty sure that's correct (tho' I won't pretend to know the alsa
code in very much depth).

Col

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