A couple unrelated issues

[Andrew Eikum]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Rafał Mużyło wrote:
> 2. alsa/pulseaudio and stream recovery: as in the past, it's hard to
> tell if it's wine or the underlaying stuff that fails; the problem I'm
> hearing is that apps sometimes without any apparent reason (as CPU usage
> isn't all that different than the average) go into '(snd_pcm_recover)
> underrun occurred' mode and start playing the sounds on much higher rate
> and then just as randomly (as it's again seemingly not related to CPU
> usage) recover; it's the randomness that bothers me: both going into the
> state *and* not recovering for several minutes; would it be possible, if
> not outright fix that, then for example add a helper app, that the user
> could manually trigger to force recovery ?
> 

Are you using PulseAudio via winealsa with the alsa-pulse plugin? Why
not just use the winepulse driver?

Andrew