[pulseaudio-discuss] Dealing with Buffer Overruns, while using pulse "default" or "pulse" sound card.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Amar Akshat at 11/09/12 08:52 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> Proceeding further from the idea I obtained in this user group, to use
> pulse audio to manage sound, by setting PULSE_SOURCE and PULSE_SINK
> with source and sink of the sound card I want to use, I ve come to
> point where SIP stack produces buffer overrun/underrun errors while
> opening the sound card "default" or "pulse".
> 
> The solution to it, is end all activity on that sound card, close it
> and open it again. Any heads on how to deal with this problem ??


>From my understanding the alsa plugin will report an underrun when the
sink-input buffer underruns which might be well before a "real" underrun
on the sink itself (i.e. when the user may hear a glitch).

Anyway David said during our conf yesterday that he wanted to add better
handling to the alsa plugin at some point. No guarantee on the
timescales tho'.

Cheers

Col


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