Xpra: Ticket #400: sound improvements - better queue handling, refactoring and cleanups

0.10 fixed a number of sound issues (ie: #362 and #379) but there is more we can and should do:



Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:43:55 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status, milestone changed

some minor improvements were made for 0.11, the rest should get done for 0.12


Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:07:43 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

This is needed, but needs to be done early in the release cycle to find all the problems. Re-scheduling.


Fri, 09 May 2014 14:12:49 GMT - Antoine Martin: priority, milestone changed

Some cleanups were done as part of #90: see r6315, r6308, etc

Too late for the large refactoring.. so re-scheduling it again.


Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:54:06 GMT - Antoine Martin: description changed


Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:21:49 GMT - Antoine Martin:

See also: #663, #669 and #673.


Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:04:11 GMT - Antoine Martin: description changed


Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:40:50 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Started in r7700.


Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:06:53 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

r7757 fixes this sink warning found on OSX:

pipeline warning: ['gstbasesink.c(3638): gst_base_sink_chain_unlocked (): \
    /GstPipeline:pipeline1/GstOsxAudioSink:osxaudiosink1:\n\
    Received buffer without a new-segment. Assuming timestamps start from 0.']

afarr: please check that I haven't broken anything on win32 or osx.


Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:00:52 GMT - Antoine Martin: description changed


Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:34:30 GMT - alas: owner changed

Sound still seems good, both OSX and Windows. SInk warning also gone.

Probably good to close this.


Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:41:22 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed

I'm not closing this ticket yet because there are still quite a few items that I haven't dealt with.


Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:28:31 GMT - Antoine Martin:

We can also deal with #669 and use multiprocessing.


Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:54:40 GMT - Antoine Martin:

We can't use multiprocessing with pygst because it relies on the gobject / glib main loop exclusively - and we can only have on of those.


Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:30:15 GMT - Antoine Martin: attachment set

deal with underruns better: try to use min-threshold-time


Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:51:11 GMT - Antoine Martin:

The "sound underrun" patch has been applied as part of r8786 for #669.

This may affect underrun and overrun events...


Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:19:12 GMT - Antoine Martin:

r8827 allows us to disable this new variable min queue code using:

XPRA_VARIABLE_MIN_QUEUE=0 xpra attach ...

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:31:13 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Some improvements in r8870 (see commit message).


Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:32:25 GMT - Antoine Martin: attachment set

allows us to compress raw WAV using the standard packet compressors (only saves about 25% with lz4, probably not worth it)


Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:36:03 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

I think this ticket is good to close, we can deal with testing in #669.

If someone has time, running benchmarks with the netcompress patch could be useful, to see what kind of trade-off we get: 25% compression is poor, but the CPU load is going to be minimal..


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:54:19 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/400