Bug 79778 - Flash: Very high latency
Summary: Flash: Very high latency
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: PulseAudio
Classification: Unclassified
Component: alsa (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs
QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs
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Reported: 2014-06-07 18:33 UTC by trondsg+bugzilla+freedesktop
Modified: 2018-07-30 09:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description trondsg+bugzilla+freedesktop 2014-06-07 18:33:52 UTC 
Flash audio has very high latency (400 ms +) when played through PulseAudio.

Play/pause on youtube to notice the time it takes until the change goes into effect.

$uname -a
Linux ubuntu-studio 3.13.0-29-lowlatency #53-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 4 21:27:51 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pulseaudio package version: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11
Comment 1 Raymond 2014-06-08 05:03:26 UTC 
any reason to use pulseaudio instead of jackd/alss if you want low latency around 5ms to 10ms ?

the default process time of pulseaudio is already 20ms when pulseaudio using a two seconds buffer
Comment 2 trondsg+bugzilla+freedesktop 2014-06-13 16:06:40 UTC 
I'd be highly satisfied with a latency of 40 ms. Unfortunately the latency in flash is in the order of 300 to 500 ms. So closer to half a second.

I can explain why this is not ok, but I don't think I should have to.
Comment 3 David Henningsson 2014-09-01 07:07:00 UTC 
Flash is difficult because it's not open source, we can't analyze and fix bugs in it. So this is probably a flash bug.

But anyway, there was a patch we recently applied to GIT head (see bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66962 ) that could affect how Flash behaves, could you test it and see if it helps?
Comment 4 trondsg+bugzilla+freedesktop 2014-09-01 16:47:05 UTC 
I'm not sure I want to fiddle around with recompilation as I'm afraid I'll break something. Currently I have acceptable latency by setting PULSE_AUDIO_MSEC=75 before running firefox.
Comment 5 trondsg+bugzilla+freedesktop 2014-09-01 17:06:29 UTC 
Just to add, the thing that breaks every time I fiddle with audio is the volume control in the indicator plugin. Volume changes are delayed ~400 ms. Bug 48307.

Also, if setting PULSE_AUDIO_MSEC globally it sometimes (not sure if it is computer dependent) causes regular glitches in other applications, even when set to very high values (500ms). Is this a bug?
Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 09:39:03 UTC 
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