[Bug 37630] New: Very fast audio & crackly (underruns) with PulseAudio 5, not with 4

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37630

Bug ID: 37630
           Summary: Very fast audio & crackly (underruns) with PulseAudio
                    5, not with 4
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.31
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winealsa.drv
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

In Wine, audio played at what seemed like triple speed, and it had horrible
quality to it. When I went to winecfg > Audio and did the test, it just sounded
as if I blew into a cheap microphone. I tried many things to fix it, but
nothing worked until I downgraded from PulseAudio 5 to 4.

I'm using Arch Linux. Sound was tested in foobar2000 (music was unintelligible)
and World of Warcraft (opening cutscene was intolerable).

Here's the error that occured with foobar2000, for example:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

[Bug 37630] Very fast audio & crackly (underruns) with PulseAudio 5, not with 4

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--- Comment #1 from YAOMTC  ---
My audio device, which has worked fine outside of Wine, is a Behringer Xenyx302
USB audio mixer.

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YAOMTC  changed:

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Sebastian Lackner  changed:

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Are you using the unofficial winepulse driver? If so, please retest without it.

There is a regression in Pulseaudio 5.0 affecting winepulse that has already
been reported to Pulseaudio:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-March/020141.h....

There's also a bug filed with Arch for the same problem:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39186.

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Another Pulseaudio bug that identifies the same commit:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86262.

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--- Comment #4 from YAOMTC  ---
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #2)
> Are you using the unofficial winepulse driver? If so, please retest without
> it.

Found it! It's wine-multimedia in AUR. Updated pulseaudio and installed
wine-multimedia and sound works correctly now. Thanks!

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--- Comment #5 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
(In reply to YAOMTC from comment #4)
> (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #2)
> > Are you using the unofficial winepulse driver? If so, please retest without
> > it.
>
> Found it! It's wine-multimedia in AUR. Updated pulseaudio and installed
> wine-multimedia and sound works correctly now. Thanks!

Sounds like you went from using winealsa to using winepulse, with winepulse
fixing your issue. Is that correct?

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--- Comment #6 from YAOMTC  ---
Well it's not called winepulse exactly, but that's probably what it is:
"Wine with Maarten Lankhorst's multimedia patches, including PulseAudio
support"
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wine-multimedia/

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--- Comment #7 from YAOMTC  ---
Okay, after a restart, the problem came back, and I realized... I had
downloaded it, but forgot to actually build and install it. Oops, I don't even
know how I thought I had installed it... Anyway, I installed it for real just
now (wow that took ages to compile), and... the problem persists.

So that wasn't the solution after all. I must have forgotten to restart
PulseAudio after updating, and was still using the old version...

So, the problem is NOT solved with wine-multimedia. Sorry, my mistake.

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Andrew Eikum  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Andrew Eikum  ---
USB devices accessed through the alsa-pulse plugin don't behave well. It's a
known issue.

I'm surprised that using the winepulse driver didn't help. Are you certain you
were using the driver? You can confirm which driver you're using by looking at
the Sound tab in winecfg.

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--- Comment #9 from [e-mail] ---
Any improvements on this? For example my mint says...pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 8.0

Also I think pulseaudio patches werent merged at the time into wine.

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joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from joaopa  ---
No news from the OP since 6 years. Probably fixed anyway.
Can an administrator close this bug as ABANDONED?

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Yao Mitachi  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Yao Mitachi  ---
I've since used other Behringer Xenyx USB devices with Wine without issue.

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 5.12.