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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Tom Szilagyi <tomszilagyi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [aqualung-friends] BUG: playback suddenly stops
To: Aqualung-friends <aqualung-friends@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hi guys,

Thanks for the thorough investigation. We're going to look into what
might cause the problem.

Tom


On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:44 AM, tim v. <tim000a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Am Sun, 23 May 2010 00:32:40 +0200
> schrieb Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2010-05-22 22:56:45
>> +0200:
>> > Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2010-05-21 15:34:31
>> > +0200:
>> > > Excerpts from Tom Szilagyi's message of 2010-05-20 10:06:31 +0200:
>> > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:58 AM, tim v.
>> > > > <tim000a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > > I’ve noticed a curious little bug/regression in the latest
>> > > > > svn-version (1141) of aqualung.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > From time to time aqualung suddenly stops or rather pauses
>> > > > > playback midsong. Clicking the still activated play/pause
>> > > > > button two times causes the playback to resume. I’m sorry to
>> > > > > say that I don’t know how to reproduce this bug. It just
>> > > > > happens from time to time, sometimes already after a few
>> > > > > songs, sometimes not until several hours of flawless playback.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Though I can’t name the exact commit that introduced it, I’m
>> > > > > quite sure it must have been a recent one because I regularly
>> > > > > update my build and have never noticed this behavior before.
>> > > > > I’ve compiled a debug build but it doesn’t output any error
>> > > > > messages. If there is anything else I could do to pinpoint
>> > > > > this please let me know. My current system is the latest
>> > > > > Ubuntu release (10.04) and I’m using aqualung with pulseaudio
>> > > > > as output driver.
>> > > >
>> > > > By chance, does the appearance of this bug coincide with your
>> > > > upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS?
>> > > > Can you possibly test aqualung with an output driver other than
>> > > > pulseaudio? I guess you need to stop pulse, that way you can run
>> > > > aqualung with ALSA output. I suspect your problem is pulse
>> > > > specific, and may be introduced by the latest Ubuntu release.
>> > > > (I don't use pulse, since it is completely unneeded for my
>> > > > setup. I'm perfectly happy with just ALSA, with which aqualung
>> > > > works perfectly and never ever produced the issue you
>> > > > described. OTOH pulse is a well known source of nasty problems,
>> > > > I've decided to avoid it altogether. Of course there may be a
>> > > > problem with aqualung itself, but this is something you might
>> > > > want to check.)
>> > > >
>> > > > Tom
>> > >
>> > > I did a clean install of aqualung from svn today, and I
>> > > experience the same behavior. So far I've used the jack backend
>> > > and wavpack files exclusively.
>> > > --
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Philipp
>> >
>> > I tried some more today, this time PA and wavpack, flac and mp3
>> > files. It happened just the same.
>> >
>> > I'm on Arch Linux x86_64, aqualung-svn-1141
>> > --
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Philipp
>>
>> I installed rev 1140 now and it plays for 1 1/2 hours now without
>> stopping, so I'm reasonably sure it's a change in rev 1141. It
>> shouldn't be too hard to find now.
>
> I followed your example and tried 1140. It seems to work fine with
> pulse too. I haven’t noticed any of the interrupts that occurs
> with 1141 so far.
>

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