Heya!

Here's a patch for alsa-plugins:

When playing very short streams, the pulse plugin needs call pa_stream_trigger() in snd_pcm_start() to make sure the stream is actually started, in addition to uncorking the stream.

Lennart

--- pulse/pcm_pulse.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pulse/pcm_pulse.c b/pulse/pcm_pulse.c index efff509..7edd157 100644 --- a/pulse/pcm_pulse.c +++ b/pulse/pcm_pulse.c @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ static void update_ptr(snd_pcm_pulse_t *pcm) static int pulse_start(snd_pcm_ioplug_t *io) { snd_pcm_pulse_t *pcm = io->private_data; - pa_operation *o; - int err = 0; + pa_operation *o, *u; + int err = 0, err_o = 0, err_u = 0;

assert(pcm); assert(pcm->p); @@ -88,11 +88,20 @@ static int pulse_start(snd_pcm_ioplug_t *io) goto finish; }

- err = pulse_wait_operation(pcm->p, o); + u = pa_stream_trigger(pcm->stream, pulse_stream_success_cb, pcm->p); + if (!u) { + pa_operation_unref(o); + err = -EIO; + goto finish; + } + + err_o = pulse_wait_operation(pcm->p, o); + err_u = pulse_wait_operation(pcm->p, u);

pa_operation_unref(o); + pa_operation_unref(u);

- if (err < 0) { + if (err_o < 0 || err_u < 0) { err = -EIO; goto finish; } else @@ -543,7 +552,7 @@ static int pulse_hw_params(snd_pcm_ioplug_t *io, snd_pcm_hw_params_t *params) break; } } - + pa_threaded_mainloop_lock(pcm->p->mainloop);

pcm->frame_size = (snd_pcm_format_physical_width(io->format) * io->channels) / 8; @@ -761,7 +770,7 @@ SND_PCM_PLUGIN_DEFINE_FUNC(pulse) pcm->io.callback = stream == SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK ? &pulse_playback_callback : &pulse_capture_callback; pcm->io.private_data = pcm; - + err = snd_pcm_ioplug_create(&pcm->io, name, stream, mode); if (err < 0) goto error;