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From: Arun Raghavan <arun.raghavan@collabora.co.uk>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: PulseAudio and softvol
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:25:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368611744.6590.8.camel@localhost> (raw)

Hello,
A number of users have intermittently(?) been hitting a crash in
alsa-lib 1.0.27 [1, 2] related to the softvol plugin. I'm not able to
reproduce this reliably, so can't find an easy way to debug/fix.

However, this raises a tangential question - why do we need softvol to
be plugged for 'front' at all? David explained to me that this is to
guarantee the existence of a PCM control. Perhaps I don't fully
understand this, because I'm unconvinced by the reason. Could someone
explain/refute?

This is especially bad for us, from PulseAudio's perspective, because we
aren't getting a zero-copy path.

Cheers,
Arun

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953352
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64299

             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-15  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-15  9:55 Arun Raghavan [this message]
2013-05-15 10:26 ` PulseAudio and softvol Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 10:48   ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 10:53     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 10:56       ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 11:03       ` David Henningsson
2013-05-15 11:22         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 11:33           ` David Henningsson
2013-05-15 12:44             ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 12:42           ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 12:47             ` David Henningsson
2013-05-15 12:49               ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 12:52               ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 13:05                 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 13:12                   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 13:26                     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 14:55                       ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 15:06                         ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-15 15:25                           ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-05-15 16:28                             ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-16  6:31                               ` David Henningsson
2013-05-16 10:58                                 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2013-06-26  6:59                                 ` [alsa-devel] " Arun Raghavan
2013-06-26  8:35                                   ` David Henningsson
2013-05-15 13:01   ` Arun Raghavan
2013-05-15 16:34 ` [pulseaudio-discuss] " Raymond Yau

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