[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#470900: Bug#470900: pulseaudio: switching forth the sink - ok, switch back - hangs client(s)

[Eddy Petrișor]

On 27/03/2008, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:29:10AM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
>  > Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>  >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:55:56PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
>  >>> I just tried using pulseaudio's network capabilities.
>  >>> I was happy to see it can really use a remote sink[1], but I was really
>  >>> upset to see that when I tried to switch back to the local sync, it made
>  >>> rhythmbox hang.
>  >>
>  >> How did you swhich sinks ? Using padevchooser or ?
>  >
>  > I used the applet.
>
>
> Ok. Then indeed you have to switch tracks or something similar to switch sinks.

OK, this was consistent, since the first time I had to change the
track to get the stream flowing on the other machine.

>  If you use tunneling you can change things really on the fly (but not via
>  padevchooser unfortunately).

I see.

>  Anyway, did you kill the remote pulseserver, was the network disconnected or
>  anything special? Just choosing a remote sink, start playing, choose the local
>  sink, restart playin seems to work flawlessly here.. Can you reproduce it?

Nothing special (although, if the remote server crashes or stops, the
local player hangs badly).

I switched sink, changed track, played for a while, switched back the
sink, rythmbox hanged.

Could it have to do with the fact the remote sink was running etch's
pulseaudio while the local was lenny's? The local machine was an amd64
running lenny, while the remote was and i386 running etch.

(I need to bring my laptop to work, which I don't do that often
lately, but will report back when I'll take it.)

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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