Re: [Jack-Devel] "Stuck" sound when a Youtube audio stream terminates

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DateMon, 11 Mar 2013 14:47:30 -0600
From Bearcat M. Şándor <[hidden] at feline-soul dot com>
ToGabriel Beddingfield <[hidden] at gmail dot com>
Ccjack-devel <[hidden] at jackaudio dot org>
In-Reply-ToGabriel Beddingfield Re: [Jack-Devel] "Stuck" sound when a Youtube audio stream terminates
Follow-UpGabriel Beddingfield Re: [Jack-Devel] "Stuck" sound when a Youtube audio stream terminates
Thanks for all the suggestions. Gabriel, i'll report this to the PA devs
and see what they say.

For what it's worth, i had a "what?!" moment when i read your sentence as
"It's a bug where someone is churning stale butter."  I suppose that might
be part of the problem too. :")


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Gabriel Beddingfield <[hidden]>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Bearcat M. Şándor
> <[hidden]> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have jack set up so i can play around with some audio applications.
> I've
> > got pulse audio going via the pulse-jack sink successfully I've got an
> asus
> [snip]
> > If i play a youtube video with this set up it plays fine. Half the time
> > though if i pause it, stop it or close the tab while it's playing, the
> last
> > second of it repeats over and over like a stuck record. Sometimes around
> 6
> [snip]
> >
> > What might be happening to cause this and how can i fix it?
>
> It's a bug where someone is churning on a stale buffer.
>
> It's unlikely that the bug in in jackd.  It's more likely that it's a
> bug in pulseaudio's jack module.  I suspect that at the end of a
> stream the module is thinking, "there's no audio... so I'll do
> nothing."  In fact, it must always zero the jack buffer whenever
> jack's callback fires.  You should report it to the PA developers.
>
> -gabriel
>
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