A few Atom users have complained about enternal rewinds since they upgraded to 0.99.x, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/825709 So here's just an idea. As a "last resort", ratelimit the number of rewinds. If there are more than 10 rewinds in 200 ms, go to sleep for 200 ms. The idea is that during those 200 ms, the client application will produce enough packets to fill up the buffer enough. Those packets will then be merged into one, due to an earlier rewind patch that is already in. The 200 ms sleep might cause a noticable glitch, but hopefully we get that one glitch only instead of complete brokenness. But I don't have any such setup here currently, so maybe any of you could check this patch and see if it works as intended, and has real effect? -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic
