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.
The output_command library provides a command interface to the audio
outputs. It assumes the input comes from an untrusted source
(i.e. the client) and verifies all parameters.
Added audio_format_parse() in a separate library, with a modern
interface: return a GError instead of logging errors. This allows the
caller to deal with the error.
audio_output_config_count() returns the number of audio outputs in the
configuration file. It is only used by initAudioDriver(). The public
function audio_output_count() now returns audioOutputArraySize.
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.
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.
I added 24 bit support a while ago, but it wasn't possible to force 24
bit output. Add 24 and 8 bit to the list of allowed sample sizes.
Although 8 bit audio isn't as widely used as 24 bit, there is no
reason to exclude it.
Splitting a frame between two buffer chunks causes distortion in the
output. MPD used to assume that the chunk size 1020 would never cause
splitted frames, but that isn't the case for 24 bit stereo (127.5
frames), and even less for files with even more channels.
"idle" waits until something noteworthy happens on the server,
e.g. song change, playlist modified, database updated. This allows
clients to keep up to date without polling.
Commit 80a2c937 broke resume after pause: it cleared the
input_audio_format when it attempted to simplify a complicated
expression. Don't clear it, just assign input_audio_format if a new
format was specified.
Renamed audio_configFormat to configured_audio_format. Renamed
audio_buffer.format to input_audio_format. Simplified its
initialization in openAudioDevice().
audio.c maintained one of MPD's many layers of audio buffers. It was
without any benefit, since playAudio() can simply send the source
buffer directly to the audio output plugin.
A frame contains one sample per channel, thus it is sample_size *
channels. This patch includes some cleanup for various locations
where the sample size for 24 bit audio was still 3 bytes (instead of
4).
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.
Seeing the "mpd_" prefix _everywhere_ is mind-numbing as the
mind needs to retrain itself to skip over the first 4 tokens of
a type to get to its meaning. So avoid having extra characters
on my terminal to make it easier to follow code at 2:30 am in
the morning.
Please report any new issues you may come across on Free
toolchains. I realize how difficult it can be to build/maintain
cross-compiling toolchains and I have no intention of forcing
people to upgrade their toolchains to build mpd.
Tested with gcc 2.95.4 and and gcc 4.3.1 on x86-32.
