The old API required an output plugin to not return until all data
passed to the play() method is consumed. Some output plugins have to
loop to fulfill that requirement, and may block during that. Simplify
these, by letting them consume only part of the buffer: make play()
return the length of the consumed data.
Now that I've found this nice function in the GLib docs, we can
finally remove our custom sleep function. Still all those callers of
g_usleep() have to be migrated one day to use events, instead of
regular polling.
If no ports are configured, don't overwrite the (NULL) configuration
with the port names of the first JACK server. If the server changes
after a JACK reconnect, MPD won't attempt to auto-detect again.
Currently, the JACK plugin manipulates the audio_format struct which
was passed to the open() method. This is very likely to break,
because the plugin must not permanently store this pointer. After
this patch, MPD ignores sample rate changes. It looks like other
software is doing the same, and I guess this is a non-issue.
This patch converts the audio_format pointer within jack_data into a
static audio_format struct.
Preparation for supporting other channel numbers than stereo: use
loops instead of duplicating code for the second channel. Most
likely, gcc will unroll these loops, so the binary won't be any
different.
When waiting for free space in the ring buffer, the JACK plugin
sleeped 10ms until there is enough space. This delay was too large
for low-latency setups (<10ms), and created a lot of xruns. Work
around that by reducing the sleep time to 1ms.
A proper solution for this would be to use an event based approach,
and we will do it, just not now.
When the connection failed once, you had to restart MPD, because it
never cleared the jack_data.shutdown flag. Instead, it refused to
play anything "because there is no client thread" (which is wrong at
that point).
On some platforms, g_free() must be used for memory allocated by
GLib. This patch intends to correct a lot of occurrences, but is
probably not complete.
Return the default value in the conf_get_block_*() functions when
param==NULL was passed.
This simplifies a lot of code, because all initialization can be done
in one code path, regardless whether configuration is present.
JACK documentation states: "The caller is responsible for calling
free(3) any non-NULL returned value."
This does not seem to include the array elements. Duplicate them
after jack_get_ports(), and free only the array. Convert
JackData.output_ports to non-const.
