[pulseaudio-discuss] Playback pauses

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:47 +0600, Dmitri Paduchikh wrote:
> Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > The device_id parameter is the sound card index, as listed
> > in /proc/asound/cards. The tsched_buffer_size parameter is the sink
> > buffer size in bytes, which determines the maximum latency, and which
> > you can choose freely. The kernel configuration determines the upper
> > bound. 65536 matches the default kernel configuration of 64 kilobytes.
> 
> I guess that even if the upper bound is determined by the kernel
> configuration, it is not CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE, since that is set
> to 4096 in my system whereas device.buffering.buffer_size was 352800.

Note that the kernel option value is in kilobytes, while in
device.buffering.buffer_size is in bytes. Also, PulseAudio never
configures the buffer size higher than 2 seconds.

-- 
Tanu