PulseAudio performance test (Karmic?)

[Myxir]

Originally Posted by Ertial

People say this too often, but it's not true. You can't blame PulseAudio for being badly distributed by the distributions, they can't write other's configuration files.

PulseAudio is a great software it has big potential. It's not badly distributed imo. The problem is, they are the first one writing such a sound application and they discovered many nasty things in the alsa stack which cause PA to run quite badly. I don't think it's (completely) their fault.

Recently I have problems with PA again. After a few minutes it takes 100+% of my cpu until I kill it.

[Mashu]

Originally Posted by Znurre

ALSA supports sound for more than 1 application at a time.
Old OSS which is shipped with most distros does not.

OSS4 does, I am using it successfuly on Debian both with HD Intel and Creative X-Fi

[Froste]

Originally Posted by Mashu

OSS4 does, I am using it successfuly on Debian both with HD Intel and Creative X-Fi

Creative cards are special because they do the mixing in hardware, it has nothing to do with the drivers of oss or alsa. However, alsa is still a huge fail.

[pssshhtt]

I've been noticing some nasty problems in with openal+pulseaudio in Karmic. (game freezes, and i can hear the music badly distorted). Anyone else having similar issues?

+1
I've updated to 9.10 last week and I almost always loose sound in battles .
since last update I've also lost char dresses in char selection screen (except 1 of my chars)
it's hard for me to play without sound so please, do sthing
thanks

[bluea]

Originally Posted by DkySven

I am using this.

I use HDA Intel also...there are troble with developement of openal..i have sound delay before ..now the new version work very well.
I am under Madriva 2010.0 ....under Madriva 2009 the troble are a lots with sound delay..like 3-4 seconds sound delay on openal.
And i am under Pulse Audio pulseaudio 0.9.19-7mdv2010.0 KDE 4.4 beta.
With previous versions i have troble with sound delay.
OpenAL info:
OpenAL version string: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.7.411