On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, at 08:31 AM, Julian Orth wrote: > Hi, > > I have a program that automatically mutes/unmutes other programs' > streams. A problem I've encountered is that, after unmuting, a small > portion of the audio that was supposed to be muted is played. > > I think this is related to buffering. Is there a way to work around > this problem? Ideally I would like to discard the buffers every time I > unmute a sink-input. I've considered using a timer that delays the > unmute action by the buffer length (as reported in the > pa_sink_input_info structure) but I'm afraid that might not work if > the other program flushes its buffer at the same time. > > pacmd reports that the sink-input I'm dealing with has a latency of 1 > second. I don't know how latency and buffering are related but maybe > this information makes a difference. You should not need to do this (and you can't). If there's some data left over after resuming, that's a bug. If you're able to reproduce this with current PulseAudio, it would be nice to pin down the exact circumstances under which this happens. -- Arun
