On 02/11/2013 11:03 AM, Dmitri Paduchikh wrote: > Hello, > > When I play a sound using paplay (or aplay with ALSA configured to use > PulseAudio) there is a big pause between two successive runs. For > example: > > $ paplay sound1.wav; paplay sound2.wav > > The pause between these sounds is something about two seconds. I've > tried to adjust latency (through --latency-msec=50) but this doesn't > seem to change much. > > Couldn't you explain what is the cause of this pause? Is it possible to > eliminate it? > This is a well-known issue which we discussed briefly at PulseConf. Fixing it is not trivial, unfortunately. I did a quick test here; and for me the delay is 250 - 500 ms, which is consistent with the output of pacmd list-sinks: configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 371.52 ms Is your maximum latency going up to about 2000 ms? What distro are you running? There was some effort a while ago to try to increase this to 2000 ms in order to reduce power consumption, and I think we had that in Ubuntu too at some point? I don't know why this is now down to 371 ms, but given that gstreamer has a latency or similar magnitude (200 - 400 ms, IIRC) for media playback anyway, I see little reason to investigate it further. And in addition, it helps a bit against this bug. :-) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
