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Andrew Tannenbaum (atannen) wrote : Re: [Bug 582600] Re: Ubuntu Lucid / PulseAudio Alsa-Plugin : 2 sec delay

Hi Oli,

sox is a command-line audio tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoX

I found the bug using sox, but it looks like other people are finding
the bug in other audio tools, and the bug is really in PulseAudio.

-Andy

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:24 PM, oliveiro <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> I don't use Sox. It's a real time audio processor, isn't it ?
> As far as this bug is concerned, I didn't check latest updates, cos I
> went back to KKoala as my main system,
> Since I use this computer as a media & web center... and I meet to many
> problems in LLynx (wifi disconnecting, audio latency...)
> even if it looks like a very stable and fast release. Since it's LTS, I
> hope these bugs will be corrected.
> I'll give another try this weekend, And maybe i'll check sox, and will
> try to reproduce your bug.
> Cheers
> Oli
>
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> Ubuntu Lucid / PulseAudio Alsa-Plugin : 2 sec delay
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582600
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> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: New
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: pulseaudio
>
> I installed a fresh Ubuntu Lucid, and updated from Lucid-proposed.
> Kernel is 2.6.32-22-generic. Did not installed anything particular.
> Didn't add any fancy repo or ppa...
> I'm using xdtv to watch tv, and a descrambler based on alsa.
> Works nice in Karmic and Jaunty. No noticable latency...
> But in Lucid I get a 2 sec delay between audio and video.
> with pulseaudio in verbose mode, I notice very few differences
> between Lucid and Karmic, when I launch the tv program:
> The main difference is the order in which "source alsa_input"
> and "Sink alsa_output" are processed. And there's a 2000 ms
> latency request here that seems to be my problem.
>
> I tried many things from related bugs-reports I found around here
> starting with checking openal1 from proposed, re-compiling alsa from source,
> using kernel2.34, audio-dev-team ppa or ricotz ppa for newer alsa and pulseaudio
> None of which succeeded...
>
> Anyone has a clue ?
> This is my first bug report on launchpad, so I'm sorry if I mispost here or mis-whatever
> And sorry also for my poor english !
>
> PS : my soundboard is an AC'97, always worked perfectly 9.10, 9.04 8.10...etc
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