[Alsaplayer-devel] Bad pause behavior, and thread counts...

[Austin Bingham]

I've been using the svn head version for the past week or so, and I've
noticed a problem. If I pause for a long time (say an hour, but I
don't have hard numbers on this), when I unpause it, I get a wierd
"chattering" effect. It's as if the player is playing short
(sub-second) segments of the file with a short pause between each. I
can usually knock it out of this state by going to the next song in
the playlist, but it's weird. FWIW, I'm running the player in daemon
mode and communicating with it via a custom python interface using the
control.h methods.

Also, in a mild attempt to look into this problem, I've been running
alsaplayer under gdb. I noticed that alsaplayer was using 38 threads!
What could it possibly be doing that would justify this? Maybe this is
the expected behavior, but it does seem a bit odd.

Anyhow, I'd be happy to look into either of these problems when I have
time, but some pointers on where to look would be helpful if anyone
has any idea what's going on.

Austin