A strange hang when running over PulseAudio

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A strange hang when running over PulseAudio

codylico opened this issue 5 years ago · 5 comments

Using Allegro 5.2.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 with what seems like a PulseAudio backend, I sometimes get a strange hang (as if the "audio device gets stuck"), and only the last few samples start playing.

This happens on both Debug and Release.

Answer 1 · 2020-06-09T23:03:31.000Z

I seem to have tracked down the issue to broken error handling in Allegro's ogg audio codec. Updates to come.

Answer 2 · 2020-06-10T00:40:39.000Z

Using "not" the PulseAudio backend (i.e. ALSA/OSS) results in similar behavior. A issue/pull request should be coming soon.

Answer 3 · 2020-06-10T16:24:44.000Z

Pull request liballeg/allegro5#1143 created.

Answer 4 · 2020-06-14T17:09:35.000Z

Pull request liballeg/allegro5#1143 has been merged to liballeg:master. Most likely the fix will be available starting in release 5.2.7.

Answer 5 · 2022-08-07T01:06:03.000Z

The fix was shipped as part of Allegro version 5.2.7.