Move the "while" loop which checks for commands to the caller
ao_pause(). This simplifies the pause() method, and lets us remove
audio_output_is_pending().
It is illegal to pass an empty audio buffer around. pcm_resample()
sometimes seems to result in 0 samples, maybe related to
libsamplerate. To work around that problem, add special checks after
both pcm_convert() invocations. Removed the pcm_resample()==0 checks
from pcm_convert().
When one of several output devices failed, MPD tried to reopen it
quite often, wasting a lot of resources. This patch adds a delay:
wait 10 seconds before retrying. This might be changed to exponential
delays later, but for now, it makes the problem go away.
pause() puts the audio output into pause mode: if supported, it may
perform a special action, which keeps the device open, but does not
play anything. Output plugins like "shout" might want to play silence
during pause, so their clients won't be disconnected. Plugins which
do not support pausing will simply be closed, and have to be reopened
when unpaused.
This pach includes an implementation for the shout plugin, which
sends silence chunks.
There was a known deadlocking bug in the notify library: when the
other thread set notify->pending after the according check in
notify_wait(), the latter thread was deadlocked. Resolve this by
synchronizing all accesses to notify->pending with the notify object's
mutex. Since notify_signal_sync() was never used, we can remove it.
As a consequence, we don't need notify_enter() and notify_leave()
anymore; eliminate them, too.
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.
