[pulseaudio-discuss] How to control latency with CLI?

[Steven Wawryk]

On 19/09/17 23:55, pulseaudio-discuss-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
>> I'm trying to work out how to control latency with pulseaudio CLI scripts.
>>
>> We're finding that latency varies between a few seconds to about 80 seconds.
>>
>> We have a system which uses a dedicated embedded board for many channels
>> of audio I/O.  Workstations
>> connect with the I/O board using RTP over a network.
>>
>> Pulseaudio 8.0 is used on both I/O board and workstation platforms, both
>> using pulseaudio CLI scripts.
>> Modules explicitly loaded include instances of module-rtp-send,
>> module-rtp-recv, module-null-sink,
>> module-remap-source, module-remap-sink and module-loopback.
>>
>> This all works as far as it goes, but with VoIP (using 1 channel in each
>> direction), we're finding
>> that the latencies make it pretty much unusable.  Ideally, I need to be
>> able to put a reasonable
>> upper limit on total latency.
>>
>> The link
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/LatencyControl/
>> provides instructions for use with the API, but I can't find much about
>> controlling latency with CLI.
>> A few modules appear to have latency-related parameters I can tweak, but
>> this seems to be pointless
>> because other modules are adding latency that I haven't worked out how
>> to control.
>>
>> Is there any way to do this?
> If you're seeing 80 second latencies, I think the only place in which
> that amount could accumulate is module-loopback. PulseAudio 11.0 has a
> big improvement in the module-loopback latency regulation, so I
> recommend upgrading.

Thank you Tanu.   I will give PulseAudio 11.0 a try.