Bug 448509

Summary:	padsp causes stuttering sound with fmod/RSPD
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2008-05-27 11:00:36 UTC

Description of problem:
When padsp is used with On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1
(http://www.playgreenhouse.com/,
http://download.playgreenhouse.com/rainslickep1_linux_r2.tgz) which uses the
fmod audio processing library, the sound comes out chopped, as though there was
a buffer underrun.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. padsp ./RainSlickEp1
  
Actual results:
Stuttering audio

Expected results:
Smooth audio

Additional info:
Runs fine with pasuspender

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2008-06-13 23:37:44 UTC

padsp does some black magic to work. Sometimes it does work, sometimes it
doesn't. We don't really support this tool. If you want some third-party
software to work with it, then I fear you have to fix this yourself.

OSS emulation is impossible to do perfectly. padsp works better than any other
tool that tried it before, but still it's not perfect. But that's where the
story ends. I won't spend my time on fixing compat with legacy applications
which use legacy audio interfaces.