[openal] OpenAL bug that freezes Blender.

[Chris Robinson]

On 06/23/2015 04:41 PM, Mario Mey wrote:
> Hi, there. I am trying to solve a problem that I have with Blender.
>
> In this report (https://developer.blender.org/T43214) of January-2015,
> Nexyon close the report and said:
>
> "
> Hey,
> I could reproduce the bug, but it's in OpenAL. I forwarded it and the
> developer said he'll fix it.
> What happens is this: http://www.pasteall.org/56262
> OpenAL won't quite as long as it doesn't get mixing requests, but
> pulseaudio doesn't send them because it doesn't have the output device.
> Regards
> "
>
> (he didn't say the name of the OpenAL developer)
>
> Is someone on this list aware of this OpenAL bug?

Yes, it's been fixed in commit 
<http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git/commit/290badea95fb7a971fbf6efdf792cc322128098a>. 
There's no ETA for the next release yet, but there will be one.