diff --git a/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/audiostream.cpp b/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/audiostream.cpp
index ae4ae6775bad6143aab0c7350a5a088c98f33d04..54309276ecc4ad37fda128528b0dddf4901ac0d6 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/audiostream.cpp
+++ b/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/audiostream.cpp
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ AudioStream::createStream (pa_context* c)
         attributes->tlength = (uint32_t)-1;
         attributes->prebuf = (uint32_t)-1;
         attributes->minreq = (uint32_t)-1;
-        attributes->fragsize = (uint32_t)-1;
+        attributes->fragsize = 4096;
 
         // pa_stream_connect_record (s , NULL , attributes , PA_STREAM_START_CORKED);
         // pa_stream_connect_record( s , NULL , attributes , PA_STREAM_INTERPOLATE_TIMING );
diff --git a/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/pulselayer.cpp b/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/pulselayer.cpp
index 1c7db92d307fb445c3c83e7be84757ace3b8601f..e46e1e95240441f6aec5a5f1fe5cfaf758ac3213 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/pulselayer.cpp
+++ b/sflphone-common/src/audio/pulseaudio/pulselayer.cpp
@@ -524,10 +524,14 @@ void PulseLayer::writeToSpeaker (void)
 	    int maxNbSamplesToGet = 0;
 	    int maxNbBytesToGet = 0;
 
+	    // test if audio resampling is needed
 	    if (_mainBufferSampleRate && ((int)_audioSampleRate != _mainBufferSampleRate)) {
  
+		// upsamplefactor is used to compute the number of bytes to get in the ring buffer 
 		double upsampleFactor = (double) _mainBufferSampleRate / _audioSampleRate;
 
+		// maxNbSamplesToGet is the number of sample to get in the ring buffer which, 
+                // once resampled, will not be over the framesPerBuffer
 		maxNbSamplesToGet = (int) ((double) framesPerBuffer * upsampleFactor);
 
 	    } else {
@@ -595,7 +599,7 @@ void PulseLayer::writeToSpeaker (void)
 
 void PulseLayer::readFromMic (void)
 {
-    const char* data;
+    const char* data = NULL;
     size_t r;
 
     if (pa_stream_peek (record->pulseStream() , (const void**) &data , &r) < 0 || !data) {