Re: Pulseaudio driver losing audio

[Mike Gorse]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> > I just updated speech-dispatcher to 0.12.0-RC3 and found that the pulseaudio
> > driver is losing samples for me, making it largely unusable with orca. It
> > works well if it only needs to play one sample at a time but starts to lose
> > audio if multiple samples are queued. If I revert 2ea44e, then it seems to
> > work fine again.
>
> For now I have reverted 2ea44e. It was supposed to provide much less
> potential for underruns, but if that poses problems to some audio set
> up, better leave it as it is, and hope that in the long run the pipewire
> driver will just work.

I'd forgotten about that issue I was having, although I'd reverted that 
commit on openSUSE. Sorry; I meant to try to debug it more, but I probably 
got distracted with something else, and I don't understand pulseaudio's 
code very well. I agree that it might not matter much in the long term; it 
looks as though pulseaudio is being replaced by pipewire, and I only have 
a system using pulseaudio because it's an older install and I haven't 
tried to update it to use pipewire's compatibility package.

-Mike