The wavpack open function gives us an option called OPEN_STREAMING. This
provides more robust and error tolerant playback, but it automatically
disables seeking. (More exactly the wavpack lib will not return the
length information.) So, if the stream is already not seekable we can
use this option safely.
The stream_decode() and file_decode() methods returned a boolean,
indicating whether they were able to decode the song. This is
redundant, since we already know that: if decoder_initialized() has
been called (and dc.state==DECODE), the plugin succeeded. Change both
methods to return void.
The function simplifies wavpack_replaygain(), because it already
contains the float parser, and it works with a fixed buffer instead of
doing expensive heap allocations.
At this moment the wavpack lib doesn't use the return value of the
push_back function, which has an equivalent meaning of the return
value of ungetc(). This is a lucky situation, because so far it
simply returned with 1 as a hard coded value. From now on the
function will return EOF on error. (This function makes exactly one
byte pushable back.)
There are some functions in the wavpack-mpd input streams wrapper
which had too commonly used names (especially can_seek). I prefixed
these with "wavpack_input_".
libwavpack expects the read_bytes() stream method to fill the whole
buffer, and fails badly when we return a partial read (i.e. not enough
data available yet). This caused wavpack streams to break.
Re-implement the buffer filling loop.
Instead of manually waiting for the input stream to become ready (to
catch server errors), just read the first byte. Since the
wavpack_input has the capability to push back one byte, we can simply
re-feed it. Advantage is: decoder_read() handles everything for us,
i.e. waiting for the stream, polling for decoder commands and error
handling.
The try_decode() method may have read some data from the stream, which
is now lost. To make this data available to other methods, get it
back by rewinding the input stream after each try_decode() invocation.
The ogg and wavpack plugins did this manually and inconsistently; this
code can now be removed.
Don't pass the "seekable" flag with every decoder_data() invocation.
Since that flag won't change within the file, it is enough to pass it
to decoder_initialized() once per file.
A decoder_flush() invocation was missing in the FLAC plugin, resulting
in casual assertion failures due to a wrong assumption about the last
chunk's audio format. It's much easier to remove that decoder_flush()
function and make the decoder thread call ob_flush().