Bug 82166

Summary:	pulseaudio 5.0 causes mplayer to freeze when pausing or seeking
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	lameventanas
Component:	core	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description lameventanas 2014-08-05 02:49:30 UTC

When using mplayer -ao pulse video.mp4, the video is reproduced correctly, but if I pause and unpause, or seek, mplayer will freeze.  The only way to recover from this is killing mplayer.

There is no such problem when using alsa directly.

My system consists of:
pulseaudio 5.0
linux 3.15.0
alsa-lib 1.0.27

The sound card is HDA Nvidia.

Comment 1 Raymond 2014-08-05 02:55:49 UTC

do you have another application playing or the monitor of sink in pavucontrol is monitoring the sink signal ?

Comment 2 lameventanas 2014-08-05 03:08:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> do you have another application playing or the monitor of sink in
> pavucontrol is monitoring the sink signal ?

Nothing else is playing, and pavucontrol is not installed.

I forgot to mention that this only happens when I play video files.
When I play sound files via mplayer, it works fine (seeking / pausing too).

Comment 3 Raymond 2014-08-06 01:20:17 UTC

how about using alsa device ?

-ao alsa:device=hw=0

Comment 4 lameventanas 2014-08-06 01:33:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> how about using alsa device ?
> 
> -ao alsa:device=hw=0

That works fine, with both audio and video files.

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 09:40:36 UTC

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