Re: Stream pulseaudio to PS3: high latency

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Sa, 2011-07-16 at 14:06 +0200, Laurent Meunier wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>  I have just started using Rygel to send a pulseaudio stream to my PS3. 
>  My setup is working well, I can listen to my music with good stereo 
>  speakers (thanks you very much for this !).
> 
>  There is only one thing that is odd: the latency. When I 
>  start/stop/pause music, I must wait between 5 and 10s before I hear the 
>  change on the speakers. I don't know if this is normal or if I can 
>  improve my setup... I have done some searchs on Google but didn't find 
>  anything usefull.

That's not exactly a low latency path. Rygel needs to buffer a bit while
converting to HTTP and the PS3 as well. I suspect the "native"
pulseaudio support would be lower on latency, but that seems to be a bit
broken currently.

>  
>  My Rygel configuration:
>  [GstLaunch]
>  enabled=true
>  launch-items=mypulseaudiosink
>  mypulseaudiosink-title=Sound on @HOSTNAME@
>  mypulseaudiosink-mime=audio/x-wav
>  mypulseaudiosink-launch=latency=0 buffer-mode=0 pulsesrc ! wavpackenc
> 
> 
>  Thanks.