815930 - Too many Ogg Vorbis players open at once break the sound

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Nathan2055]

If you open to may Ogg Vorbis media players, the browser has an issue loading sound. To reproduce:

1. Go to <http://v.gd/Js5V94> (sorry about the shortlink, but the actual link is very long)
2. Start playing many of those music files for a few seconds, then pause them.
3. Eventually the player no longer sends sound to the speaker, and it looks like you are playing empty .ogg files.

It doesn't survive a refresh, but it still seems pretty odd.

Comment 1

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that *all* sound stops playing, or that the later sounds you play don't send sound to the speaker, but the already playing sounds keep playing?

We limit the number of threads that decode audio, you're probably hitting that limit, and existing threads could be all blocked waiting in data to come over the network. That would explain all sound stopping playing.

Comment 2

[Loic]

(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #1)
> I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that *all* sound stops playing, or
> that the later sounds you play don't send sound to the speaker, but the
> already playing sounds keep playing?

STR:
1) Open http://v.gd/Js5V94
2) Start 5 or 6 audio streams (in the same line e.g.)
3) After 10 sec, pause audio #1, then audio #2, then audio #3 etc...

Result: after audio #3 (or #4) is stopped, there is no sound, even if audio #4, #5, etc are still playing.

> We limit the number of threads that decode audio, you're probably hitting
> that limit, and existing threads could be all blocked waiting in data to
> come over the network. That would explain all sound stopping playing.

Surely the reason, indeed. :)

Comment 3

[Nils Ohlmeier [:drno]]

Mass closing because of inactivity.
Please feel free to re-open if still relevant.