[MPlayer-users] Continuous "Audio device got stuck!" warnings playing audio-only files with -ao pulse

[Ilja Sekler]

On 14.02.2012 21:17, Ilja Sekler wrote:

> On 14.02.2012 21:07, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 06:52:46PM +0100, Ilja Sekler wrote:
>> 
>>> MPlayer continuously prints "Audio device got stuck!" warnings to
>>> console while playing audio-only files with -ao pulse (but not
>>> with -ao alsa), otherwise the playback works impeccably. [...]
>> 
>> [...] the issue was really in ao_pulse which did not set the
>> "ao_data.outburst", which caused this sleep here to be far too
>> short. Should be fixed in r34726, though it is just a guess since I
>> did not find any pulseaudio function to get a really "correct"
>> value as we do for ALSA.
> 
> Verified fixed in r34726 [...]

Well, while the core problem of continuous warnings is solved, up and
then I do get "Audio device got stuck!" complaints from MPlayer playing
audio files with -ao pulse. The easiest reproducible way to trigger
this on my Fedora installation is to increase or reduce the volume with
GNOME keyboard shortcuts (I use Ctrl+Super+Up and Ctrl+Super+Down), as
GNOME 3 plays a popping sound on each increment as audible feedback.
Sure, this is a very minor inconvenience, but maybe MPlayer should be
even more patient with pulseaudio?

Thanks,

-- 
Regards

Ilja