'Twas brillig, and Harsha, Priya at 15/09/09 10:17 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > Can anyone help understand this behavior on my system? > > 1. I try playing a 50 min file using paplay and > it works perfectly fine > > 2. I try playing the following script and it works > perfectly fine > for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay > /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; sleep(1); done > > 3. I try playing the following script (without delay in-between > each file playback) and it stops during 5th playback > for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay > /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; done > > Somehow, if I change in /etc/pulse/default.pa, add "timeout=0" to module module-suspend-on-idle, the 3rd scenario also plays > perfectly fine. > > Can anyone help explain what could be going wrong in 3rd scenario? > And why setting timeout=0 solves the issue? Is setting timeout=0 > the right solution? No there should be no solution necessary. The fact it stops is some kind of bug... That said, I cannot reproduce here: $ for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay /usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav; done 0 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo 1 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo 2 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo 3 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo 4 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo All works fine and exits cleanly after playing me five "bings" :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
