[pulseaudio-discuss] alsa sink latency - how to account for startup delay

[Georg Chini]

On 27.03.2016 10:47, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-03-26 at 13:16 +0100, Georg Chini wrote:
>> On 24.03.2016 13:38, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>>
>> For me it still looks like pulseaudio should be able to detect and handle
>> that situation.
> Why can't the alsa driver report the delay correctly from the very
> beginning? I don't see why the startup delay case would be any
> different from the normal playback delay, and if there's no difference,
> why can't the driver report the latency accurately in the beginning if
> it can report it accurately later? And what can pulseaudio do that the
> alsa driver can't?
>
>
To put it simple, the current pulseaudio code answers the question:
How long does it take for the audio to reach the alsa driver?
And I think it should answer the question:
How long does it take for the audio to reach the DAC?