PulseAudio 10 Coming Soon, Using Memfd Shared Memory By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PulseAudio 10 Coming Soon, Using Memfd Shared Memory By Default

It's been a half year since the debut of PulseAudio 9.0 while the release of PulseAudio 10 is coming soon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...10-Coming-Soon

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I still have some audio problems (garbage out, sounds like a sampling frequency mismatch, it's painful to hear, and happens most of the time with my USB headsets) in some games or applications. Rocket League and Beat Hazard are such examples; it also sometimes happens in Mad Max. Is there any tool I could use for debugging this issue?

[cj.wijtmans]

I still have some audio problems (garbage out, sounds like a sampling frequency mismatch, it's painful to hear, and happens most of the time with my USB headsets) in some games or applications. Rocket League and Beat Hazard are such examples; it also sometimes happens in Mad Max. Is there any tool I could use for debugging this issue?

stop using leannardt software and use gstreamer.

[dragon321]

I wonder if only I never got any issues with PulseAudio...

[r_a_trip]

I wonder if only I never got any issues with PulseAudio...

No, I am using PulseAudio without any trouble as well. Must be YMMV situation.

[lumks]

stop using leannardt software and use gstreamer.

Troll or just stupid? 🤔 gstreamer isnt a replacement for pulse.

The thing that PA still needs is a good variable bit/samplerate machanism. While PA is great, resampling is not cool

[Chewi]

Prioritising passthrough streams will be good, I ran into that issue last night when I went to play a DVD but had left XMMS2 on pause.

[mmstick]

I still have some audio problems (garbage out, sounds like a sampling frequency mismatch, it's painful to hear, and happens most of the time with my USB headsets) in some games or applications. Rocket League and Beat Hazard are such examples; it also sometimes happens in Mad Max. Is there any tool I could use for debugging this issue?

Lower the latency of PulseAudio and you'll be fine. At the very bottom of the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf file is

; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

Remove the `;` and lower their values.

[schmidtbag]

I haven't had any PA issues since maybe 2009. Much of the time when people complain about PA, very often, the underlying ALSA layer is just as faulty. But, I guess it's easier to point fingers at something that used to be stereotypically buggy rather than submit a bug report with solid evidence that PA is the issue.

[starshipeleven]

stop using leannardt software and use gstreamer.

Hey hey hey, don't steal debianxfce's lines.