PA produces delay in applying program sound settings and producing sound effects

[Letto]

When i modify the sound volume in the a program like amarok or mplayer the effetc of these settings has a noticeable of around 2 seconds That would not be problematic, but the problem is that wine also suffers from delays. For example in Warcraft 3 some sound effect get delayed wich is confusing. (Not only applying settings, but clicking on a unit produces the sound with delays.)

Games for linux though, wich use openal (like powermanga ) don't suffer from this. Applying settings in PA volume control also has no delay.

Wine is set to use esound, the rest use the PA bindings. This happens on PA 0.9.9 and 0.9.10 with a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card wich uses the ice1724 alsa driver.

[Letto]

Also i posted a message here http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/262 . Wich i assume you wouldn,t see since it did not appear in the changelog. :)

[coling]

AFAIK it's up to the applications to adjust the "hardware" volume rather create their own "soft" volume implementations (e.g. change the data they supply to the sound layer based on the volume setting).

Some apps have a "use hardware mixer" setting which stops this when going via ALSA plugin, and if the app support pulseaudio directly it can abstract the volume adjustment appropriately.

So this is not really a problem of pulse IMO.

PS your comment on #262 came through to the bugs mailing list fine... I presume that's what you meant when you said "changelog".

[lennart]

This is not a bug in PA. It's just that those apps are not able to control PA's per-stream volume controls.