Upgrade PulseAudio to upstream version.
This bug needs to be done together with bug 2505, otherwise we'll ship a version without Solaris and Windows support.
The current pulseaudio has a few new dependencies, but they were easy to add to the new build system. It also seems to build properly. So the work that needs to be done on this bug is to: - Modify the build system slightly - Check that we don't get any new runtime dependencies - Check that the parameters we pass from tlclient still make sense - General testing to see that it still behaves like we want It's really only the fourth item that can cause any major problems.
When doing this bug, check that we are building the PA binaries without -fPIC.
PulseAudio 1.0 is out now; with Windows support! http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-September/011451.html
Pulseaudio 2.0 is out, Im going for a test build, deps on intltool 0.50 and json-c 0.9 starting off to update our buildsystem.
intltool is available but outdated and currently not used in cendbuild environment, needs to be updated to 0.50 for pulseaudio, intltool have a dep on perl-xml-parser which also is outdated and don't compile on all archs...
(In reply to comment #5) > Pulseaudio 2.0 is out, > > Im going for a test build, deps on intltool 0.50 and json-c 0.9 > starting off to update our buildsystem. json-c v0.9 added to buildsystem in commit r25459.
(In reply to comment #6) > intltool is available but outdated and currently not used in cendbuild > environment, needs to be updated to 0.50 for pulseaudio, intltool have > a dep on perl-xml-parser which also is outdated and don't compile on > all archs... intltool is updated to version 0.50.2 in cmomit r25460.
pulseaudio does also use regex gcc builtin but have support for pcre, which is needed for mingw builds.
Windows binaries are built but is built upon pulseaudio v1.1, the build is hosted on openSUSE build service and is crosscompiled using mingw64 for both 43/64bit, (i686-w64-mingw32) https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?arch_i586=1&defaults=0&project=home%3Amkbosmans%3Amingw32%3Apulseaudio&repo_openSUSE_11_4=1&succeeded=1 However one need to patch src/Makefile.am due to rtp module is not ported and are not built on Windows platform, however if OPENSSL is found its pulled as a dep of raop module. --- src/Makefile.am 2012-07-10 10:49:13.000000000 +0200 +++ src/Makefile.am 2012-07-10 10:49:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -1242,7 +1242,8 @@ proximity-helper endif -if HAVE_OPENSSL +if HAVE_OPENSSL +if !OS_IS_WIN32 modlibexec_LTLIBRARIES += \ libraop.la \ module-raop-sink.la @@ -1251,6 +1252,7 @@ module-raop-discover.la endif endif +endif if HAVE_DBUS if HAVE_FFTW
(In reply to comment #10) > pulseaudio does also use regex gcc builtin but have support for pcre, > which is needed for mingw builds. commit r25466 add pcre to build system.
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Pulseaudio 2.0 is out, > > > > Im going for a test build, deps on intltool 0.50 and json-c 0.9 > > starting off to update our buildsystem. > > json-c v0.9 added to buildsystem in commit r25459. Commit r25465, Adds cached values for AM_AC_MALLOC/REALLOC on windows builds
We get crashes when loading module-alsa-*.so. This is caused by a glibc bug: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14577 The provoking cause for this is that pulseaudio uses the NODELETE flag, which was added here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/src/Makefile.am?id=84cd23303550cdc3aa605add9f8a2faa3fc1c3e1 We can probably just remove it, since it was added to work around problems when applications uses libpulse. Or we could restrict it to just libpulse*.so.
TODO: * Remove the nodelete flags from the .so files * There are currently 4 different methods for "ld bind now": 1 in tlclient, 3 in PulseAudio. Probably want to disable a few of them. * Do a build for Pierre to test. * Downgrade Alsa in build system, or disable those functions not available on common dists.
(In reply to comment #15) > TODO: > > * Remove the nodelete flags from the .so files Done in working copy. > * There are currently 4 different methods for "ld bind now": 1 in tlclient, 3 > in PulseAudio. Probably want to disable a few of them. Done in working copy. > * Do a build for Pierre to test. Done. > * Downgrade Alsa in build system, or disable those functions not available on > common dists. We have decided to try to downgrade to some common version. Need to check what dists are using.
(In reply to comment #16) > > * Downgrade Alsa in build system, or disable those functions not available on > > common dists. > > We have decided to try to downgrade to some common version. Need to check what > dists are using. The functions that are problematic on CentOS 6 was introduced with Alsa 1.0.24 (sometimes called 1.0.24.1?). Dist versions: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: 1.0.15 RHEL5: 1.0.17 SLE*11 SP2: 1.0.18 RHEL6: 1.0.22 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: 1.0.22 In other words, if we skip Ubuntu 8.04, the lowest version is 1.0.17. However, PulseAudio requires (since a long time ago) alsa-lib 1.0.19. I don't think we want to change this requirement. Besides, we used alsa-lib 1.0.21 earlier. So I guess 1.0.21 is my suggestion.
Note: The ambition for Solaris is just to have something that builds, since the current implementation does not work either. See bug 3934.
Upstream has screwed something up. pulseaudio (the daemon) is linked against libpulse (the client library). Someone probably put stuff incorrectly in there when it should have been in libpulsecommon.
(In reply to comment #19) > Upstream has screwed something up. pulseaudio (the daemon) is linked against > libpulse (the client library). Someone probably put stuff incorrectly in there > when it should have been in libpulsecommon. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55180 and r25851.
Added protection against opening virtual PulseAudio devices in ALSA in r25893. Tester should verify that this protection works reliably.
Let's see if we can load module-wavout twice, to avoid the requirement of having a mic connected on vista/7.
TODO: The Auto shutdown feature is apparently active on Windows.
--fail=false isn't working. Need to have another look.
(In reply to comment #24) > --fail=false isn't working. Need to have another look. Fixed in r25911.
(In reply to comment #22) > Let's see if we can load module-wavout twice, to avoid the requirement of > having a mic connected on vista/7. Fixed in r25913.
(In reply to comment #23) > TODO: The Auto shutdown feature is apparently active on Windows. Also on other platforms. Fixed in 25917.
Windows installer does not ship the necessary PA files.
(In reply to comment #28) > Windows installer does not ship the necessary PA files. 25918.
Two problems noticed on the demo system: - VLC has buffering issues. You get constants underruns. - Audio sync is off. Tested both totem and mplayer.
(In reply to comment #30) > Two problems noticed on the demo system: > > - VLC has buffering issues. You get constants underruns. > > - Audio sync is off. Tested both totem and mplayer. Verified problems both on Windows XP and CentOS 6.
(In reply to comment #30) > Two problems noticed on the demo system: > > - VLC has buffering issues. You get constants underruns. From VLC -v: > > - Audio sync is off. Tested both totem and mplayer. [0x251abb8] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 2 [0x252d748] freetype spu text error: failed to load font file /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-9078), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-21053), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (259486) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (42556) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (302041), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (280708), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (259375), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (238041), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (216708), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (195375), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (174041), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (152708), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (131375), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: buffer is 110041 late, triggering upsampling [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (41498) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (151373), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (130040), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (47413) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (156098), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (134764), dropping buffer [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (80538) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (42606) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (42619) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (41987) [0x251abb8] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (321077), dropping buffer
Bug reports about VLC problems: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/751265 http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=157 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50510 Also see fork av PulseAudio: https://github.com/soimort/pulseaudio-vlc-friendly
(In reply to comment #30) > Two problems noticed on the demo system: > > - VLC has buffering issues. You get constants underruns. We believe this is a VLC problem, probably fixed in more recent versions. The developers says that you really need to use 1.1.12 or never for proper pulse support, but we are unable to install that on eudemo.thinlinc.com without a lot of hacks. I've tried against my home server which is CentOS 6 with VLC 2.0.3, and although the connection is too slow for video playback, the problem seems to be gone. I have switched to Totem on eudemo. > - Audio sync is off. Tested both totem and mplayer. Created bug 4411.
PulseAudio crashes on Solaris 10, because a null pointer (the current thread name) is passed into a printf function. #0 0xfeeb20d0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xfef1d66c in _ndoprnt () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0xfef1fd8c in vsnprintf () from /lib/libc.so.1 #3 0xff0291d0 in pa_vsnprintf (str=0xffbfecf8 <error reading variable>, size=128, format=0xff0a9f90 <error reading variable>, ap=0xffbfabb8) at pulsecore/core-util.c:2171 #4 0xff02934c in pa_snprintf (str=0xffbfecf8 <error reading variable>, size=128, format=0xff0a9f90 <error reading variable>) at pulsecore/core-util.c:2157 #5 0xff034e2c in pa_log_levelv_meta (level=PA_LOG_WARN, file=0xff0a7738 <error reading variable>, line=72, func=0xff0a7788 <error reading variable>, format=0xff0a7750 <error reading variable>, ap=0xffbfee58) at pulsecore/log.c:308 #6 0xff0344fc in pa_log_level_meta (level=PA_LOG_WARN, file=0xff0a7738 <error reading variable>, line=72, func=0xff0a7788 <error reading variable>, format=0xff0a7750 <error reading variable>) at pulsecore/log.c:449 #7 0xff025a08 in pa_cstrerror (errnum=<value optimized out>) at pulsecore/core-error.c:72 #8 0xff027274 in pa_raise_priority (nice_level=-1) at pulsecore/core-util.c:829 #9 0x000183f8 in main (argc=16, argv=0xffbff154) at daemon/main.c:893 (disregard the <error reading variable> errors, they're an artifact of using gdb 7.2 on Solaris)
(In reply to comment #35) > PulseAudio crashes on Solaris 10, because a null pointer (the current thread > name) is passed into a printf function. > Fixed in r25955.
Tested on: Fedora 17 Fedora 18 alpha Ubuntu 12.10 Windows 7 Windows XP Embedded WYSE Linux v6 Everything seems to work as far as I can tell. Closing.
Reopening due to bug 921, comment #19: 2012-11-07T16:39:37: pulseaudio: E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory /home/elux not ours.
(In reply to comment #41) > Reopening due to bug 921, comment #19: > > 2012-11-07T16:39:37: pulseaudio: E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory > /home/elux not ours. Hopefully fixed in 26142.
Tested latest rc on eLux (3.8) machine in conference room. Got sound, glee ensued. Closing.
