[pulseaudio-discuss] Playback pauses

[Raymond Yau]

> > Hmm, in my case the upper bound in this range is 1837,50 ms. May be this
> > explains huge pauses. Though I'd expect that command-line option
> > --latency-msec=50 should change the used latency.
>
> The reason why that doesn't work is probably that when the last byte of
> the stream buffer is copied to the sink buffer, the sink latency is set
> back to about 2 seconds, but the stream is not considered yet finished,
> because the data is still in the sink buffer, not yet out of the
> speakers. Thus, there will be roughly 2 seconds before the sink requests
> more data, and this is the event that triggers the notification that the
> stream has now definitely finished.

Does this mean pulse client did not send a drain signal for the server to
end the playback stream  ?
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