On Tue, 15.09.09 14:47, Harsha, Priya (priya.harsha at intel.com) wrote: > 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 Stops? In which way? The command just freezes? > 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? Could you run PA as "pulseaudio -vvvvvv" and provide me with the last 100 lines of output when this 'stopping' happens? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
