29.09.2014 18:16, David Henningsson wrote: > Ah, now I get it - the problem is not that the buffer might become half > empty, the problem is that you might estimate to sleep too long, so your > process time is effectively cut in half: if you previously had problems > with process times > 20 ms, you can now potentially have problems with > process times > 10 ms. > > I doubt this is a blocker, as this will resolve itself naturally since > the potential underruns that might occur will just cause the process > time to increase, but it's a very valid point and worthy some thought in > case this patch will ever be v2. > > (Still waiting for somebody to report back that it's actually making a > difference - otherwise I won't fix anything that isn't broken.) I think it is worth testing on a Xonar DX or any other card with an insanely large FIFO size. Unfortunately, I don't own this card, and it would be a rather big stretch to ask my friend (who has it) to test a patched version of PulseAudio :( -- Alexander E. Patrakov
