Re: [xine-devel] Pause/unpause problem (amarok stops playing tracks bug)

[Miguel F. <mfr...@gm...>]

Hi Rex,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Rex Dieter <rd...@ma...> wrote:
> Miguel Freitas wrote:
>>>> since xine is used by default by phonon, and (it seems) that both
>>>> ubuntu and fedora are shipping it with pulseaudio, you can imagine how
>>>> many users are affected.
>
> To interject a bit, as a fedora developer, I'd be fabulously happy to
> receive any sort of advice or feedback wrt to issues like these, esp if you
> disagree with any decisions or policies made.  I'd venture folks from other
> distros would feel likewise.

My "complain" here is simple.

I'm sympathetic to the idea of pulseaudio in general, it seems well
coded and (last time i checked - 2 years ago) well supported. I have
also helped coding the first xine pulseaudio driver at the time it was
 called something else.

That said, i never used pulseaudio myself. I was using alsa directly
until very recently (2009) when i upgraded 3 computers and i noticed
pulse being used everywhere.

It doesn't take more than a few days using xine + pulse combination to
note (1) the stuttering when starting playback and (2) the
pause/resume lockup. So i can only guess that people might not be
using (testing) what they are packaging.

Anyway, my suggestion to distros is: pack the latest 1.1.16.2 release
+ pause/resume patch (changeset 2208e465026c) and make it available to
users asap because it fixes several lockups. You may also include that
workaround to remove stuttering from audio-only streams if you want.

Then, with the pressing issues out of the way, we continue tracking
the remaining issues either in xine or pulse bugtrackers. I would
remind that last big rewrite of our pulse driver (the same that
increased it's priority above ALSA) was contributed by Lennart, 10
months ago, so he probably knows that code better.

regards,

Miguel