Make dither noise as a value between -0.5 and 0.5 and add this
to the scaled samples.
For this, we first need to do the scaling and then the CLAMP to
the target depth. This optimizes to the same code but allows us
to avoid under and overflows when we add the dither noise.
Add more dithering methods.
Expose a dither.method property on audioconvert. Disable dither when
the target depth > 16.
We need to do dithering and noise when converting f32 to the
target format. This is more natural because we can work in 32 bits
integers instead of floats.
This will also make it possible to actually calculate the error between
source and target values and implement some sort of feedback and
noise shaping later.
Pass some state to convert and channelmix functions. This makes it
possible to select per channel optimized convert functions but
also makes it possible to implement noise shaping later.
Pass the channelmix matrix and volume in the state.
Handle specialized 2 channel s16 -> f32 conversion
Add some const and SPA_RESTRICT to methods
When the input and output is the same, work in passthrough mode
where we simply copy place the input pointer onto the output buffer
without doing a memcpy.
Do memcpy when the resampler is not active.
Improve the allocators to always align the buffer memory to the
requested alignment
Use aligned read and writes for sse functions and check alignment,
optionally falling back to unaligned path.
Add more tests and benchmark cases
Check and warn for misaligned memory in plugins.
Make special format types for planar and interleaved instead of
having a field.
Add enum for audio channel positions
Add some default audio channel layouts
Place the channel layout in the audio format when possible
alsa: place audio channel positions in format
Add sse optimized channel mixing for some common cases
Remove name from port info, it's not mandatory and in the properties
Add direction to port info
Do not use dynamic types anymore. The reason is that it's difficult:
- to maintain a shared type database over a network.
- the extra overhead when translating between processes and for
maintaining the translation tables.
- race conditions in translating in RT-threads, this is a problem
because we want to make event streams.
We now have simple enums with types and extension points for all
types. This is also nicer to use in general.
We don't need the mapper anymore or pass strings around as types.
There is a parallel type info system to get more info about ids and
enums and their hierarchy. It can also be used for debugging.
