Bug#1004385: wireplumber: VLC freezes 20+ seconds before starting

Benno Overeinder

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Jan 26, 2022, 9:40:12 AM1/26/22

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Package: wireplumber
Version: 0.4.7-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: be...@overeinder.net

Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?

After a recent upgrade of wireplumber, vlc freezes for about 20-30
seconds after launch before playing anything. After some searching I
found this issue has been reported on other forums that after upgrading
from 0.4.5 to 0.4.7 the vlc application will freeze for 20-30 seconds
before playing anything.

Here are the URLs to the reported issue:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/63
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/178

Here a member of the forum reported the following:

I git bisected this problem down to wireplumber commit 6adccbe3
("policy-node: always use the default linkable if default nodes module
is loaded"). Reverting that commit requires first reverting bee9827a
and 23fc4d21. With all 3 reverted, I no longer have any delays when
running VLC.

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ineffective)?
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wireplumber depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.61
ii libc6 2.33-3
ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.2-1
ii libpipewire-0.3-0 0.3.43-2
ii libwireplumber-0.4-0 0.4.7-1
ii pipewire 0.3.43-2

Versions of packages wireplumber recommends:
ii pipewire-pulse 0.3.43-2

wireplumber suggests no packages.

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Dylan Aïssi

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Feb 10, 2022, 4:00:04 AM2/10/22

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Hi,

Le mer. 26 janv. 2022 à 15:33, Benno Overeinder <be...@overeinder.net> a écrit :
>
> After a recent upgrade of wireplumber, vlc freezes for about 20-30
> seconds after launch before playing anything. After some searching I
> found this issue has been reported on other forums that after upgrading
> from 0.4.5 to 0.4.7 the vlc application will freeze for 20-30 seconds
> before playing anything.
>
> Here are the URLs to the reported issue:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/63
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/178
>

Wireplumber 0.4.8 with a fix for this issue in now available in sid.
Could you check if your issue is solved?

Best,
Dylan

Benno Overeinder

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Feb 10, 2022, 8:20:03 AM2/10/22

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Hi Dylan,

On 2/10/22 09:51, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
>
> Wireplumber 0.4.8 with a fix for this issue in now available in sid.
> Could you check if your issue is solved?

I updated wireplumber and libwireplumber from sid, and it all works as
expected. The issue has been solved with the update.

Thanks!

-- Benno