PulseAudio Is Streaming With An Excessive Latency.

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I’m running CentOS 6, just did a yum update, and still cannot get sound from vlc.

The entire message (reformatted):
Potential PulseAudio version problem:
PulseAudio is streaming with an excessive latency. Sound may be lost or quality degraded. To address that issue, upgrade the PulseAudio daemon to version 3.0, or disable the alternate sampling rate in its configuration

I can find /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and its man page , but cannot figure out what to do.

pulseaudio.x86_64 0.9.21-24.el6 @base vlc.x86_64 2.0.10-1.el6 @rpmfusion-free-updates

Any ideas?

7 thoughts on - PulseAudio Is Streaming With An Excessive Latency.

  • Does that imply that I should abandon VLC or just rpmfusion?
    This site:
    http://www.tecmint.com/install-vlc-media-player-in-rhel-CentOS-fedora/
    suggests I use epel and nux. I already have epel enabled. Should I use its suggestion to install the nux repo?

    The other video player I have is mplayer, but I haven’t gotten it to play anything lately. I think the issue is that decoders are “sold separately”
    and I do not even know what to call the decoders much less how to install them.

  • I have some multi-media RPMs including VLC at https://media.librelamp.com/

    I started building them when rpmforge went stale, needing the GStreamer and FFmpeg – and only somewhat recently added VLC (as I have started to become really disappointed with each totem update)

    Anyway I can’t say they are better than nux because I never used nux but nux seems to be popular so probably has better peer support.

  • before switching to Nux, I would take note of, and uninstall any rpmfusion packages, then remove the rpmfusion repo, install the nux repo, and install the nux versions of the packages you want.

  • From yum:
    Downloading Packages:
    …
    ——————————————————————————

  • You have never installed anything from nux before and it wants to give you the gpg key for that repo.

    That’s normal behaviour.

  • Thanks.

    Now I have nux vlc. It works now, I think. One time I had trouble getting it to stop. I closed the window, but the sound continued for several minutes. The problem has not recurred.