On 10/25/2010 10:26 PM, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:45:03AM -0700, JD wrote: >> On 10/25/2010 04:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Monday, October 25, 2010 04:39:53 JD wrote: >>>> On 10/24/2010 08:28 PM, JD wrote: >>>>> --- snip --- >>>>> No matter what we think of flash, pulseaudio is not a product >>>>> of the flash plugin. It is a free and opensource linux product. >>>>> I just created output of strace of the pulseaudio process >>>>> and posted it at >>>>> http://pastebin.com/VbgCXwc3 >>>>> It shows clearly that it is in a tight loop polling and finding >>>>> nothing to process. As I had stated earlier, there is no youtube >>>>> video playing at all. It seems once you play any browser based >>>>> flash video, pulseaudio will continue to run even after you kill the >>>>> tab where it was playing, and chew up 40% of cpu (at least, this >>>>> is on my laptop with the old athlon64 3700+ unicore cpu). >>>>> I do not know how much it consumes on much faster cpu's. >>>>> >>>>> Are there audio engineers on this list? >>>>> Is this the way to handle an audio stream by an audio daemon? >>>> I would like to add that this behavior is only evident when playing >>>> a flash video via the browser. >>>> But if I play a video via ffplayer, then after the end of the video, >>>> pulseaudio goes back to consuming almost 0% of cpu. >>>> So, is it possible that the flash plugin is not closing the audio >>>> file descriptor, so pulseaudio keeps polling and finding nothing? >>> Probably. Either way, the fact that there is a problem only after flash >>> playback indicates that flash and/or the browser are at fault here, not >>> pulseaudio. >>> >>> Best, :-) >>> Marko >> Thanks Marko - >> I will look into finding a way to ask >> adobe about it, since it is their plugin. >> > To add to this, I have simialr problems with pulseaudio. Everytime I start > my laptop and log in to KDE pulseaudio does not work properly. Playing > mp3 just gives no sound (using mplayer). Playing movies on youtube or > other sites gives no sound with the movie and the movie plays at very fast > speed. > > But when I just do a 'killall pulseaudio' from a Konsole session everything > suddenly starts to work. Automatiacally a new pulsseaduio process is started, > mp3 plays fine and web video play smoothly with sound! > > Hope this may help. > > -Marcel Before you kill pulseaudio, see what it is doing by issuing the command strace -p PIDofPulseaudioProcess | tee /tmp/pulseaudio.strace You will probably find that it is stuck in an infinite loop poling a file descriptor and finding there is no data to read. If that is the case, your problem is still related to what I have reported in this thread. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
