[pulseaudio-discuss] Yet another attempt to fight rewinds

[David Henningsson]

A few Atom users have complained about enternal rewinds since they 
upgraded to 0.99.x, see 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/825709

So here's just an idea. As a "last resort", ratelimit the number of 
rewinds. If there are more than 10 rewinds in 200 ms, go to sleep for 
200 ms. The idea is that during those 200 ms, the client application 
will produce enough packets to fill up the buffer enough. Those packets 
will then be merged into one, due to an earlier rewind patch that is 
already in. The 200 ms sleep might cause a noticable glitch, but 
hopefully we get that one glitch only instead of complete brokenness.

But I don't have any such setup here currently, so maybe any of you 
could check this patch and see if it works as intended, and has real effect?

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic