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Bug 549680 - media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214 pa_stream_write() failed: Invalid argument with >=media-sound/pulseaudio-6.0
Summary: media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214 pa_stream_write() failed: Invalid argumen...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
URL: https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2241
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Reported: 2015-05-17 04:27 UTC by Matthew Stapleton
Modified: 2015-06-13 11:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
fix_unaligned_frames_to_pa_stream_write.patch (fix_unaligned_frames_to_pa_stream_write.patch,1.11 KB, patch)
2015-05-17 04:29 UTC, Matthew Stapleton
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Description Matthew Stapleton 2015-05-17 04:27:28 UTC
Since pulseaudio commit: https://github.com/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/150ace90f3808bbb7240e18a11140d66a7bda146 (stream: Fail on client submitting non-frame-aligned memblocks) (applied to Pulseaudio release: 6.0), mplayer sometimes gets pa_stream_write() failed: Invalid argument when sending audio to pulseaudio.  When playing with 6 channels, I always get the error.  This is because mplayer doesn't align the audio output to the current frame size when sending audio to pulseaudio.  There is also a bug report here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44937 .

I have created a patch based on how mplayer's alsa driver aligns the frames which appears to fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Matthew Stapleton 2015-05-17 04:29:45 UTC
Created attachment 403444 [details, diff]
fix_unaligned_frames_to_pa_stream_write.patch
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-05-21 15:45:16 UTC
Did you forwarded the patch to upstream? Thanks!
Comment 3 Matthew Stapleton 2015-05-26 09:12:12 UTC
No.  Should I do that?  This patch may be needed to be back ported to stable versions of mplayer and/or improved as well before pulseaudio 6.0 is marked as stable in portage.
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-05-26 20:58:10 UTC
yes please, forward it to upstream to not need to carry the patch forever
Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-06-13 11:08:22 UTC
+*mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1 (13 Jun 2015)
+
+  13 Jun 2015; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
+  +files/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-pulseaudio-6.0.patch,
+  +mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1.ebuild:
+  Let it work with pulseaudio-6.0, bug #549680 by Matthew Stapleton
+