fc11, mplayer, pulseaudio, data underrun whiel playing from network.

[Steve]

---- jack craig <jackc at linuxlighthouse.com> wrote: 
> On 07/27/2009 10:48 AM, jack craig wrote:
> > my pulseaudio test fine when playing local .wav files, but using it in 
> > a stream gets me data underruns as below.
> >
> > i launch the player with, ...
> >
> > mplayer -ao alsa -cache 512  
> > http://74.201.24.2:80/live_mapleton_vitalstream_com_kpigfm?MSWMExt=.asf
> >
> > and it plays for a few minutes, then the stream chokes and the device 
> > is closed.
> >

I have a similar problem with F10 which I reported in this thread:

"Sound problem after upgrading from F9 to F10" 

on July 12 but never got any replies. In my case it happens with local files too.

$ aplay /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
underrun!!! (at least 2216.305 ms long)

which results in log messages similar to what you experienced:

Jul 27 19:35:23 steve pulseaudio[3243]: module-alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 40.00 ms

I'd like to hear if anyone has a work-around for this because I like to listen to music while I work and the dropouts every couple of seconds are just too distracting.

Steve