Re: [Gwc-general] Odd error (only every other time I playback) using gwc with pulseaudio on ubuntu 12.10

[Chris G. <cl...@is...>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:30:00PM -0800, jeff welty wrote:
>    Hi Chris,
>    I think John Cirillo was on the right track, sort of.  But I think also
>    the way GWC connect to pulse audio might have a bug.  I hadn't compiled
>    and run gwc for a while, and I just did on my Fedora Core 17 machine,
>    running the gnome window manager.
>    With nothing else running, I have no problems with playback.
>    But, if I crank up a streaming application (like grooveshark), in firefox,
>    I get the same problem you have described, play only works every other
>    time.

Thanks for taking a look.  It's not quite as consistently 'every other
time' as I originally thought and *seems* to act rather differently if I
use the space bar to start and stop rather than the icons.  It still
happens using the space bar though.

I think (among other things) I have Music Player Daemon running on the
same system so there's at least one other pulseaudio client, I might try
stopping it (MPD) to see if that fixes it.

>    If I get a chance, I'll poke around at the pulse audio code for GWC.  When
>    I imlemented it pulse audio was still pretty young so I didn't work too
>    hard at it.  Maybe there is an error return that the code can sense and
>    attempt a reconnect to the audio driver automatically instead of just
>    failing and popping up the error dialog.
>    Thanks for trying GWC and especially thanks for reporting the problem!

If there's anything I can do to help investigate/debug then please ask.

-- 
Chris Green