CJ van den Berg wrote: > I don't know about SDL, but ALSA definitely has the same problem on > Debian. It seems, from reading the plug-in code, that the ALSA plug-in > drops the connection on every buffer under run. I don't know what the > purpose of that is supposed to be. It doesn't make much sense to me. > > As a workaround, you can raise the minimum period size in the ALSA > plug-in. That prevents the stuttering in Skype and Ekiga, but doesn't > really fix the problem. It only makes it less likely. > > The strange thing is though that Skype still creates thousands of > connections even with a larger period size (and no stuttering), so there > must be other reasons for the plug-in to drop the connection too, or I'm > missing something somewhere. Hmm, come to think of it, perhaps I only > raised the period size for the sink and not the source... Thanks for the info CJ, I'll maybe have to learn some slightly in depth pulse/sound stuff at some point and actually look into the API calls in SDL and see if I can come up with a little patch for it. Col
