[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio 4.0 gets killed by 300 Hz tone...never recovers

[Robert Krakora]

Hi Tanu,

Here is my setup.  I have a machine that is utilizing Asterisk 11.4 to send
a 300Hz tone sampled at 44.1K to another machine via SIP running Asterisk
11.4 and PulseAudio 4.0.  The source machine does not have PulseAudio
installed and it running ALSA 1.0.25.  The sink machine does have
PulseAudio installed (version 4.0) and ALSA 1.0.25.  Maybe it is a
resampling issue on either the source or sink machines?  When I play the
300Hz tone on the sink machine with PulseAudio installed directly (not over
SIP) it sounds fine.  Asterisk wants to resample to 8K for SIP
transmission...  PulseAudio does not blow up at all.


44.1K 300Hz tone->Asterisk 11.4->8K 300 Hz tone-->/ /-->Asterisk 11.4->8K
300Hz tone->PulseAudio 4.0->44.1K 300 Hz tone

Best Regards,

Rob



On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <
tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 08:56 -0400, Robert Krakora wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been struggling with Pulse Audio since version 2.1 to play
> different
> > wav files that play fine with straight ALSA.  A co-worker found a 300 Hz
> > tone that is played by our system to warn of an emergency event kills
> Pulse
> > Audio 3.0 and 4.0.  The tone sounds like it is motor-boating.  After
> > playing this tone, wav files that previously sounded fine now also
> > motor-boat.
>
> I don't understand this last part. If the tone kills PulseAudio, how can
> you even play any other wav files after that?
>
> > Suspending Pulse Audio and playing with straight ALSA is the
> > only remedy.  ALSA plays all of these wav files just fine.  I really like
> > Pulse Audio and need it for the WebRTC echo cancellation it provides for
> > our A/V conferencing application.  However, it struggles with some of the
> > most basic wav files that our system needs to play on a daily basis.
>
> PulseAudio isn't interested in the audio signal contents. It shouldn't
> matter whether the wav file contains 300 Hz tone or silence or white
> noise or funny sounds from an armpit, because PulseAudio doesn't analyze
> the signal and decide its code paths based on that (well, the echo
> cancellation code might be an exception). If a certain file causes
> trouble, perhaps it's the length that triggers the problem (causing
> things to happen in certain order)?
>
> If it's really a crash, then a log and a stack trace would be useful. If
> it's just that the audio becomes corrupted, then this smells more like
> an alsa driver problem.
>
> --
> Tanu
>
>


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Rob Krakora
MessageNet Systems
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