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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com>
Cc: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Two patches for Alsa-plugins (pulse)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:14:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C51385E.7080102@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=u2fbu-uu9vgEdp60bouAq=iHehMBzPWXAGjdE@mail.gmail.com>

2010-07-29 09:11, Raymond Yau skrev:
> 2010/7/10 David Henningsson <launchpad.web@epost.diwic.se>
>>> The biggest drawback by this change is that whether the sound goes
>>> well or not isn't reported any more to the application layer.
>>> It's an unfortunate design, but it's life with PA.
>>
>> The question is - is there an application that detects the underrun
>> condition and actually acts on that condition? If so, this could be a
>> regression for that app. For other apps it's an improvement, for the
>> reasons originally stated.
>>
>>
> This patch by Lennart Poettering should answer your question
> 
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=commit;h=660e0f16145167a966e9b8387e9a8e08274a8f7c

Okay, so we've broken XMMS, at least the 2007 version of it?

The better solution to this problem would be to add a write_pointer to
the xrun callback (and PA's native protocol), so we can detect whether
the underrun is obsolete or not and act accordingly.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 19:57 [PATCH] Two patches for Alsa-plugins (pulse) David Henningsson
2010-06-23 23:44 ` Raymond Yau
2010-06-24  6:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-06-25 10:41   ` David Henningsson
2010-06-25 10:57     ` Colin Guthrie
2010-07-05  6:06     ` Takashi Iwai
2010-07-09 12:10       ` Takashi Iwai
2010-07-09 13:13         ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-09 16:23           ` Takashi Iwai
2010-07-09 17:50             ` David Henningsson
2010-07-09 22:58               ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-10  6:42                 ` David Henningsson
2010-07-13  5:08                   ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-13  6:57                     ` David Henningsson
2010-07-13  8:32                       ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-10  2:07               ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-29  7:11               ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-29  8:14                 ` David Henningsson [this message]
2010-07-29 13:38                   ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-17  4:30             ` Raymond Yau
2010-07-12  2:13 ` Raymond Yau

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