Since Pulseaudio is slow to release you may want to backport the fix mentioned here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399#note_2101834 The actual patch is in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/commit/8fe50bbc31e11abf2f30864f1e2dbdaa16d0e1c3
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cf0e9903a054aff5c703d3c0e465a8e7610c3ca0 commit cf0e9903a054aff5c703d3c0e465a8e7610c3ca0 Author: Igor V. Kovalenko <igor.v.kovalenko@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-10-06 08:35:12 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-06 12:05:10 +0000 media-libs/libpulse: Backport smoother fixes to 16.1 Upstream commits: 8fe50bbc31e11abf2f30864f1e2dbdaa16d0e1c3 c3eae5d00cb79bd897049483126e75bb48a69cd1 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914882 Signed-off-by: Igor V. Kovalenko <igor.v.kovalenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../pulseaudio-16.1-smoother-start-paused.patch | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++ ...pulseaudio-16.1-smoother-time-calculation.patch | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ media-libs/libpulse/libpulse-16.1-r3.ebuild | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+)