This updates the copyright header to all be the same, which is
pretty much an update of where to mail request for a copy of the GPL
and the years of the MPD project. This also puts all committers under
'The Music Player Project' umbrella. These entries should go
individually in the AUTHORS file, for consistancy.
Instead of passing individual buffers to audio_output_all_play(), pass
music_chunk objects. Append all those chunks asynchronously to a
music_pipe instance. All output threads may then read chunks from
this pipe. This reduces MPD's internal latency by an order of
magnitude.
time() is not a monotonic timer, and MPD might get confused by clock
skews. clock_gettime() provides a monotonic clock, but is not
portable to non-POSIX systems (i.e. Windows). This patch uses GLib's
GTimer API, which aims to be portable.
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.
During debugging, I found a deadlock between flushAudioBuffer() and
the audio_output_task(): audio_output_task() didn't notice that there
is a command, and flushAudioBuffer() waited forever in notify_wait().
I am not sure yet what is the real cause; work around this for now by
waking up non-finished audio outputs in every iteration.
Send an output buffer to all output plugins at the same time, instead
of waiting for each of them separately. Make several functions
non-blocking, and introduce the new function audio_output_wait_all()
to synchronize with all audio output threads.
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.
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.
If the output device is already open, it may have modified
outAudioFormat; in this case, outAudioFormat is still valid, and does
not need an overwrite.
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.
