[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Change the default fragment size to 5 ms

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

22.10.2014 22:21, I wrote:
> Of course, this only applies to ALSA devices that can't use tsched, as
> well as to OSS on more exotic platforms.
>
> This is needed for compatibility with Wine games that use DirectSound8
> on distributions such as Arch Linux who don't accept the unofficial
> winepulse patch. The reason is that Wine DirectSound8 emulation requests
> a period of 10 ms and expects it to work for the purposes of timing. And
> in fact, it cannot know (via ALSA API) that it is not going to work!

I hereby withdraw the patch, as on IRC I see that Arun said:

"""
I'm not too happy with changing that. It would affect CPU on systems 
that don't care about Wine.
and I really really don't want to work around bad clients in PA. 
(despite the fact that I am also bitten by this bug)
...
Want to start a BrokenClients page?
"""

(note: due to the "cannot know" reason, I still disagree that it is a 
client-side problem)

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov