(Adding the mailing list back to recipients.) On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 23:23 +0200, Samuele Carcagno wrote: > > > > First of all, this is a known issue: http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/866 . > > It's a bit tricky to fix, and so far nobody has volunteered to work on > > it. > > > > I think it should be a viable workaround to keep the latency of the sink > > low while you play your files. There's no direct knob that you can use > > to control the latency, but you can play something, and request that to > > be played with low latency. The sink latency will be configured > > accordingly. If you use paplay instead of aplay, you can request a > > latency: paplay --latency-msec=50 somefile.wav. I would expect that to > > help, but if not, you could also try keep the latency low all the time > > by playing silence in the background: pacat --latency-msec=50 /dev/zero > > > > > > many thanks for the info, I've tried your workarounds but the latency still remains > very large. Hope this issue will be fixed in some future release. Was there no improvement? I'm surprised. -- Tanu
