Comment 60 for bug 644644

Hi folks,

This problem has been going on for far too long, and last week I spent a lot of time trying to nail it down, and trying to find the causes for these problems. I'm talking of the case where PulseAudio get stuck in rewind after rewind, finally getting killed by the kernel for using too much RT Prio time. (It might be that for some people, PA crashes for other reasons.)
Unfortunately, it's a quite complex problem, probably without one easy fix that works for all. I have also had some problems reproducing it reliably here.

Anyway, I have made a test ppa with five fixes in; two in gstreamer and three in pulseaudio. My guess is that using them will improve the situation for some people, but perhaps not for everyone. The ppa is here: https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/fighting-rewinds and is meant for users running Maverick. I'll need you to provide feedback of whether they improve the situation or not.
To test: install either the gstreamer pulseaudio plugin, pulseaudio, or both, from my ppa. (For pulseaudio, make sure you upgrade both libpulse and pulseaudio.) Then logout/login (or reboot).