Sound "stop" from time to time...

Hi,

I installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on my HP Compaq Presario CQ60-155EP recently. He came with Vista… :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, on OpenSuSE I have a litle problem with the sound.

When I try to listen MP3 (only try this), Totem and Banshee both play, but the musics “stop” from time to time (random) and continue after this litle “stop”…

It’s almost like there’s not “buffer” enough to store the music…

Can someone help me with this? :slight_smile:
I really NEEEEED to listen music while I’m doing anything, but with the music hanging all the time is really boring… :wink:

Thanks!

There is the possibility this is a pulse audio problem. One possible workaround, is to try the fix suggested here:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
… note you need to restart your PC after implementing that.

I know in KDE-3.5.10 it is possible to adjust the “buffer” size for audio. I do not know if that is possible in Gnome or KDE4.

https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-February/003150.html sounds like this…

https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=open&product=openSUSE+11.1&content=pulseaudio

PA has been one big screw up. But don’t worry 36 bugs means we just have to bug shoot it for them.

[opensuse-factory] Disable PulseAudio by default](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-02/msg00208.html)

I guess you’d have to prowl the mailing lists to find out what they are doing about the latency, last time I followed it I got to, show us the benchmarks, I’d show them the bug reports before I showed them benchmarks.

Good luck I suspect you have 3 ways, roll your own kernel, rip out PulseAudio or live with it.

Perhaps you can affect the fate of PA https://features.opensuse.org/305888, funny this fate thing top one seems to be disable beagle, so 2 feature requests are removals.

Hi!

First, thanks to all for the replies.

I read most of the links that were posted here, and on this: PulseAudio - openSUSE I found a suggestion to change two parameters on the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf file.

BEcause they alread were like they said to put, what I do was change the default-fragment-size-msec parameter from 21 to 60.
I don’t know what this will do to the system, but the sounds are ok know… :wink: hehehehehehe

I will perform some testes on the next days and if this cause any trouble, I’ll take a deep look on the problem and post here the new solution.

Thanks again! lol!