We have eliminated direct accesses to the audio_output struct from
the all output plugins. Make it opaque for them, and move its real
declaration to output_internal.h, similar to decoder_internal.h.
Pass the opaque structure to plugin.init() only, which will return the
plugin's data pointer on success, and NULL on failure. This data
pointer will be passed to all other methods instead of the
audio_output struct.
Pass the globally configured audio_format as a const pointer to
plugin.init(). plugin.open() gets a writable pointer which contains
the audio_format requested by the plugin. Its initial value is either
the configured audio_format or the input file's audio_format.
To keep I/O nastiness and latencies away from the core, move the audio
output code to a separate thread, one per output. The thread is
created on demand, and currently runs until mpd exits.
As long as the device isn't open, both attributes are not used. Since
they will both be initialized in audio_output_open(), we do not need
the initialization in audio_output_init().
The "!src" check in copyAudioFormat() used to hide bugs - one should
never pass NULL to it. There is one caller which might pass NULL, add
a check in this caller.
Instead of doing mempcy(), we can simply assign the structures, which
looks more natural.
Max Kellermann