Bug 600109 - Sound skips
Summary: Sound skips
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-03 23:47 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2010-11-03 14:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-11-03 14:37:59 UTC
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2010-06-03 23:47 UTC, Michael Monreal
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Description Michael Monreal 2010-06-03 23:47:02 UTC
Created attachment 421070 [details]
Log

When playing sound using banshee and totem for example, the sound skips for a second every few minutes. I have run pulseaudio in debug mode and found some underrun is happening when the sound skips:

...
I: alsa-sink.c: Underrun!
I: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 30.00 ms
D: protocol-native.c: Underrun on ''Princess Of The Dawn' by 'Accept'', 0 bytes in queue.
D: protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to rewrite.
D: alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 35688 bytes.
D: alsa-sink.c: Limited to 10452 bytes.
D: alsa-sink.c: before: 2613
D: alsa-sink.c: after: 2613
D: alsa-sink.c: Rewound 10452 bytes.
D: sink.c: Processing rewind...
D: sink-input.c: Have to rewind 10452 bytes on render memblockq.
D: sink-input.c: Have to rewind 20904 bytes on implementor.
D: source.c: Processing rewind...
...

For more, see the attached log.

I have not really noticed this until now because I have not used this box for music, but it is very distracting now.

Are there any tweaks I can try to work around the problem? I may be able to test F13 on this system (LiveCD), but a full upgrade is not possible ATM.

$ rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc12.i686
wine-pulseaudio-1.1.44-4.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686

Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2010-06-04 13:01:28 UTC
After browsing around a bit I first tried this:

default-sample-rate = 48000
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10

Followed by

high-priority = yes
nice-level = -11

Neither had any effect.

Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2010-06-09 20:41:17 UTC
I managed to upgrade this box to F13 and the problem seems to be gone now. You may want to close as CURRENTRELEASE or something like that

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