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audioOutput_alsa: add use_mmap, period_time, buffer_time options

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ALSA support in libao supports configuring of these variables,
and some hardware setups may benefit from having these things
as tweakable.

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Eric Wong
2006-07-16 16:52:19 +00:00
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@@ -236,6 +236,26 @@ separate options. An example for oss: "dsp=/dev/dsp". An example for alsa09:
This specifies how many bytes to write to the audio device at once. Used only
by the ao output type. This parameter is to work around a bug in older
versions of libao on sound cards with very small buffers. The default is 1024.
.SH OPTIONAL ALSA OUTPUT PARAMETERS
.TP
.B use_mmap <yes or no>
Setting this allows you to use memory-mapped I/O. Certain hardware setups
may benefit from this, but most do not.
Most users do not need to set this.
.TP
.B buffer_time <time in microseconds>
This sets the length of the hardware sample buffer in microseconds.
Increasing it may help to reduce or eliminate skipping on certain setups.
Most users do not need to change this.
The default is 500000 microseconds (0.5 seconds).
.TP
.B period_time <time in microseconds>
This sets the time between hardware sample transfers in microseconds.
Increasing this can reduce CPU usage while lowering it can reduce underrun
errors on bandwidth-limited devices. Some users have reported good results
with this set to 50000, but not all devices support values this high.
Most users do not need to change this.
The default is 256000000 / sample_rate(kHz), or 5804us for CD-quality audio.
.SH REQUIRED SHOUT OUTPUT PARAMETERS
.TP
.B name <name>