pulseaudio problems again

[Michał Zegan]

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Does it work like so for the whole time, or it sounds like that for
some time and then sounds normally?

W dniu 2015-05-01 o 22:04, Jeremy Whiting pisze:
> When I log in to my computer, play music in amarok, if 
> speech-dispatcher is running, the music is super choppy, if I kill 
> speech-dispatcher, the music is smooth and sounds fine. Starting 
> speech-dispatcher again the music becomes choppy again.
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Micha? Zegan
> <webczat_200 at poczta.onet.pl> wrote: Just for sure, can you tell me
> what issue are you exactly getting?
> 
> W dniu 2015-05-01 o 07:42, Jeremy Whiting pisze:
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> 
>>>> I hit this issue this evening a bit (have hit it off and on
>>>> lately) so I asked in #pulseaudio and got some suggestions. I
>>>> first tried using libao, but with that I got no speech at
>>>> all. At any rate, it seems we are asking for too small of a
>>>> tlength in the bufferAttr we pass in to pa_simple_new. The
>>>> default in the code is 100, and it's taking a value from the
>>>> config also. default of 100. If I set it to something much
>>>> bigger like 4096, everything sounds fine (and pacmd 
>>>> list-input-sinks shows the latency we are asking for as much
>>>> longer than .50ms. I gather that ideally we should calculate
>>>> that from the sample itself. I.e with a 30ms latency and a
>>>> sample of 22050Hz (which I'm getting here from espeak) * 0.03
>>>> seconds (30ms) * 1 channel * 2 bytes because of the 16 bit
>>>> sample we should be asking for 1324, not 100. If that makes
>>>> sense to everyone I'll put together a patch that does the
>>>> calculation based on the sample tomorrow.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks, Jeremy
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Micha? Zegan 
>>>> <webczat_200 at poczta.onet.pl> wrote: Hey.
>>>> 
>>>> I have installed archlinux with pulse/speech-dispatcher
>>>> compiled with libao, set libao as my default module, and set
>>>> libao to use pulse. It seems that at the moment everything
>>>> mostly works, like it still happens that there is a bad sound
>>>> on login or on login screen, but it is far better, and for a
>>>> very short period of time. After that, the sound of espeak is
>>>> okay, unless someone overuses the cpu of course. On a side
>>>> note, I am using teamtalk and when there are too many people
>>>> then the effect is sometimes a little bit similar to the
>>>> thing that happens on the beginning of the session so I am
>>>> wondering if this is the same issue and what it actually is 
>>>> :O anyway libao seems to be better, so if you have this
>>>> problem you can test it yourself to confirm if it's gone.
>>>>> 
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