The default values for buffer_time and period_time were both capped by
the hardware limits on practically all chips. The result was a
period_time which was half as big as the buffer_time. On some chips,
this led to lots of underruns when using a high sample rate (192 kHz),
because MPD had very little time to send new samples to ALSA.
A period time which is one fourth of the buffer time turned out to be
much better. If no period_time is configured, see how much
buffer_time the hardware accepts, and try to configure one fourth of
it as period_time, instead of hard-coding the default period_time
value.
This is yet another attempt to provide a solution which is valid for
all sound chips. Using the SND_PCM_NONBLOCK flag also seemed to solve
the underruns, but put a lot more CPU load to MPD.
Sometimes, audio_output_update() isn't called for the second device
when the first one has succeeded. The patch
"audio_output_all_update() returns bool" broke it, because the boolean
evaluation ended after the first "true".
When the decoder chunk is empty in decoder_flush_chunk(), don't push
it into the music pipe - return it to the music buffer instead. An
empty chunk in the pipe wastes resources for no advantage.
The value of music_chunk.next is undefined for a chunk returned by
music_pipe_shift(). For more pedantic debugging, poison the reference
before returning the chunk.
This patch follows the commit 21bb10f4b.
>From Max Kellermann:
> I removed the daemonization changes in main.c. Please explain why you
> changed that. If you need it for some reason, make that a separate
> patch with a good description of your rationale.
> That's the biggest flaw of your code: it opens the mixer device in the
> init() method, while the open() method is empty. When the pulse
> daemon is not available (either during MPD startup or when it dies
> while MPD runs), the plugin will not even attempt to reconnect to
> pulse. Please move the code to the open() method, to make that work.
I changed the daemonize call as the fork losts the connection to the
pulse server. According to your remark, the init() method should be
moved to the open() ones.
With the modification, mpd is able to reconnect the pulse mixer after
restarting the pulseaudio daemon.
Signed-off-by: David Guibert <david.guibert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>
This patch introduces the mixer for the pulse output.
Technically speaking, the pulse index is needed to get or set
the volume. You must define callback fonctions to get this index since
the pulse output in mpd is done using the simpe api. The pulse simple api
does not provide the index of the newly defined output.
So callback fonctions are associated to the pulse context.
The list of all the sink input is then retreived.
Then we select the name of the mpd pulse output and control
its volume by its associated index number.
Signed-off-by: Patrice Linel <patnathanael@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Guibert <david.guibert@gmail.com>
[mk: fixed whitespace errors and broke long lines; removed
daemonization changes from main.c]
Turn the music_pipe into a simple music_chunk queue. The music_chunk
allocation code is moved to music_buffer, and is now managed with a
linked list instead of a ring buffer. Two separate music_pipe objects
are used by the decoder for the "current" and the "next" song, which
greatly simplifies the cross-fading code.
Added music_pipe_allocate(), music_pipe_push() and
music_pipe_cancel(). Those functions allow the caller (decoder thread
in this case) to do its own chunk management. The functions
music_pipe_flush() and music_pipe_tag() can now be removed.
After the decoder command was obtained, don't wait until libflac
detects EOF (as a side effect), quit the decoder immediately. This
check was missing completely.
When the MPD core sends the decoder a command while
flac_process_single() is executed, this function fails. Abort the
decoder only if not seeking. This fixes a seeking bug.
Log the real period and buffer size. This might be useful when
debugging xruns. Note that the same information is available in
/proc/asound/card*/pcm*p/sub*/hw_params
The lastfm input plugin enables MPD to play lastfm:// URLs. This
plugin is not complete yet: it plays only the first song in the
last.fm playlist, and the playlist parser isn't even implemented
properly.
Some sound chips/drivers (e.g. Intel HDA) don't support 24 bit
samples, they want to get 32 bit instead. Now that MPD's PCM library
supports 32 bit, add a 32 bit fallback when 24 bit is not supported.
There is nothing 24 bit specific in the pcm_dither_24 struct. Since
we want to reuse the struct for 32 bit dithering, let's drop the "_24"
suffix from the struct name.
Some 24 bit code can be reused. The 32 bit variant has to use 64 bit
integers, because 32 bit integers could overflow. This may be a
performance hit on 32 bit CPUs.
