Bug 441799

Summary:	After pipewire runs for a while, chainging volume with the applet/keyboard shortcut induces heavy cracking. Doesn't happen with pavucontrol.
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-pa	Reporter:	jakubby
Component:	applet	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	denilsonsa, jakubby, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.22.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description jakubby 2021-08-31 07:12:42 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Let pipewire survive multiple sleep cycles and hours-days.

OBSERVED RESULT
Lag+crackling.

EXPECTED RESULT
Smooth volume change.



SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:  5.13.12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Workaround:
1. killall pipewire[pipewire restarts]/restart the pipewire path/socket/service
2. restart apps that use audio, restart plasmashell+latte-dock

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-08-31 17:22:29 UTC

Cannot reproduce. However this would be caused by an issue upstream of any KDE code; we don't manipulate the audio stream at all. So you would want to report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues