There are a few problems left in this plugin:
- fluidsynth decodes in real time, while MPD prefers to buffer as
quickly as possible; as a workaround, this plugin uses a timer
object to synchronize with real-time playback
- I don't know yet how fluidsynth tells me when the song has ended
- the "soundfont" configuration setting is not yet documented, and it
will likely change soon (in favor of a per-decoder configuration
block)
The "current" variable is used for calculating the seek destination,
and was declared as "int". With very long song files, the 32 bit
integer can overflow. ffmpeg expects an int64_t, which is very
unlikely to overflow. Switch to int64_t.
If avcodec_decode_audio2() returns no output for an AVPacket,
libavcodec may buffer some data, and return a larger chunk of output
later. This patch disables a lot of bogus warnings.
Output the name of the codec as a debug message. During my tests,
ffmpeg never filled this struct member, but it may do so in the past,
and this debug message might become helpful.
Hi -
independently of libmikmod's other problems - there seems
to be a problem in mpd's wrapper: MikMod_Exit() is called
after the first file is decoded, which frees some ressources
within the mikmod library. An attempt to play a second file
leads to a crash. The appended patch fixes this for me.
(I don't know what the "dup" entry is good for - someone
who knows should review that too.)
best regards
Matthias
[mk: removed 3 more MikMod_Exit() invocations]
ffmpeg_tag_internal() does not look for a few tags that mpd
supports. Most noteably:
comment -> TAG_ITEM_COMMENT -> Description
genre -> TAG_ITEM_GENRE -> WM/Genre (not WM/GenreID)
year -> TAG_ITEM_DATE -> WM/Year
I *think* that this is the last of the tags that AVFormatContext() in
ffmpeg supports that mpd also uses.
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.
The input_stream API sets size to -1 when the size of the resource is
not known. The modplug decoder checked for size==0, which would be an
empty file.
You are allowed to call decoder_read() with decoder==NULL. It is a
convenience function provided by the decoder API. Don't manually fall
back to input_stream_read().
Some plugins used the APE or ID3 tag loader as a fallback when their
own methods of loading tags did not work. Move this code out of all
decoder plugins, into song_file_update().
When libvorbis knows that a song is seekable, it seeks around like
crazy in the file before starting to decode it. This is very
expensive on remote HTTP resources, and delays MPD for 10 or 20
seconds.
This patch disables seeking on remote songs, because the advantages of
quickly playing a song seem to weigh more than the theoretical ability
of seeking for most MPD users. If users feel this feature is needed,
we will make a configuration option for that.
