[pulseaudio-discuss] [with workaround] Fluttered sound with Firefox or Chome when using PA through the network

[Michael DePaulo]

My previous testing was done on PulseAudio 4.0. I am not sure if this
patch was even meant for 4.0.

I just tested this patch (66962) by itself on PulseAudio 4.99.2.
And I then tested this patch with the patches from 69712 together on
PulseAudio 4.99.2.
Both tests were successful!
Specifically: The patch fixed the flash audio bug ( which was present
without the patch), and sound in general worked on Fedora 20.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tanu Kaskinen
> <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> We have a patch[1] in bugzilla that is supposed to fix some problems
>> with Flash when used with a tunnel sink. Does that patch fix your
>> problem? If it does, can you reproduce the problem with anything else
>> than with Flash content? One reason why the patch hasn't been applied
>> yet is that Flash is closed source, which prevents us from understanding
>> the issue thoroughly. If there was an open source program that could be
>> used for reproducing the problem, that might help (although I don't
>> personally promise to spend any time investigating the problem).
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66962
>>
>> --
>> Tanu
>>
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>
> This bug is affecting the X2Go Client for Windows.
> (X2Go bug 363. Our "fix" is to bundle X2Go Client win32 with the
> unaffected pulseaudio win32 0.9.6 in addition to the affected
> pulseaudio win32 1.1.)
>
> It appears to only affect PulseAudio when it is running on Windows. In
> X2Go terminology, the PulseAudio server runs on the X2Go Client. We
> always use a "Direct Connection" as listed here with X2Go:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Network/#index1h2
>
> Anyway, I did some testing of this patch.
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmL_OrCln9ShdHNVb2cyX2w2MUlJdTdOMnhNWW9uV2c&usp=sharing
>
> In summary: The patch fixes the bug when firefox + flash_plugin is
> running on Ubuntu 12.04. Firefox's HTML5 audio works fine with or
> without the patch on Ubuntu 12.04. However, when the apps are running
> on Fedora 20, applying this patch to the win32 pulseaudio causes audio
> to stop working altogether!
>
> Note that I have not applied either this win32 patch:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69710
> nor this set of win32 patches:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69712
> I am thinking of applying both of them on the win32 client and then
> retesting Fedora 20.
>
> Note that with X2Go, the windows client is using a config file like
> this (the port numbers are randomly generated):
> load-module module-native-protocol-tcp port=4713
> load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp port=4714
> load-module module-waveout
>
> And the linux server is using a PULSE_CLIENTCONFIG file like this:
> default-server=localhost:30002
> cookie-file=.x2go/C-mike-50-1390783444_stDMATE_dp32/.pulse-cookie
>
> Note that we are using SSH port forwarding by default. However, when I
> disabled X2Go's SSH port forwarding for pulseaudio in the past, it did
> not fix this flash audio bug.
>
> -Mike DePaulo
> win32 Package Maintainer for the X2Go Project