[pulseaudio-discuss] Why does module-suspend-on-idle.c think this source is idle?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 12:16 +1030, Steven Wawryk wrote:
> This feature appears to have been introduced in version 5.0.  I am 
> trying to get it upgraded to a later version but not sure if I can.
> 
> Either way. isn't this argument about suspending when idle?  The primary 
> issue here seems to be that PA thinks it's idle when it shouldn't be.  
> Even if I can upgrade and put this argument in, will the stream be idle?

module-rtp-send explicitly tells the source that it should ignore the
rtp stream when figuring out whether the source is idle. This is to
avoid wasting bandwidth when nothing is playing to the monitored sink.
Setting "inhibit_auto_suspend=never" will change that behaviour.

-- 
Tanu