This is the beginning of work to support compressed formats natively in
PulseAudio. This adds a pa_stream_new_extended() that takes a format
structure, sends it to the server (=> protocol extension) and has the
server negotiate with the appropropriate sink to figure out what format
it should use.
This is work in progress, and works only with PCM streams. Actual
compressed format support in some sink needs to be implemented, and
extensive testing is required.
More details on how this is supposed to work is available at:
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PassthroughSupport
This is pretty cosmetic change; there's no actual functionality added.
Previously the volume_writable information was available through the
pa_sink_input_is_volume_writable() function, but I find it cleaner to have a
real variable.
The sink input introspection variable name was also changed from
read_only_volume to volume_writable for consistency.
There are two known cases where read-only or non-existing sink input volume is
relevant: passthrough streams and the planned volume sharing logic.
Passthrough streams don't have volume at all, and the volume sharing logic
requires read-only sink input volume. This commit is primarily working towards
the volume sharing feature, but support for non-existing sink input volume is
also added, because it is so closely related to read-only volume.
Some unrelated refactoring in iface-stream.c creeped into this commit too (new
function: stream_to_string()).
This change doesn't add any functionality in itself, but it will be useful in
the future for operating on chains of sinks or sources that are piggy-backing
on each other.
For example, the PA_PROP_DEVICE_MASTER_DEVICE property could
be handled in the core so that each virtual device doesn't have to maintain it
separately. By using the origin_sink and destination_source pointers the core
is able to see at stream creation time that the stream is created by a virtual
device, and then update that device's property list using the name of the
master device that the stream is being connected to. The same thing can be done
also when the stream is being moved from a device to another, in which case the
_MASTER_DEVICE property needs updating.
Second version after Tanu's feedback
TODO:
- notify client that volume control is disabled
- change sink rate in passthrough mode if needed
- automatic detection of passthrough mode instead of hard
coded profile names
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@intel.com>
Instead of using string contents for type identification use the address
of a constant string array. This should speed up type verifications a
little sind we only need to compare one machine word instead of a full
string. Also, this saves a few strings.
To make clear that types must be compared via address and not string
contents 'type_name' is now called 'type_id'.
This also simplifies the macros for declaring and defining public and
private subclasses.
- We now implement a logic where the sink maintains two distinct
volumes: the 'reference' volume which is shown to the users, and the
'real' volume, which is configured to the hardware. The latter is
configured to the max of all streams. Volume changes on sinks are
propagated back to the streams proportional to the reference volume
change. Volume changes on sink inputs are forwarded to the sink by
'pushing' the volume if necessary.
This renames the old 'virtual_volume' to 'real_volume'. The
'reference_volume' is now the one exposed to users.
By this logic the sink volume visible to the user, will always be the
"upper" boundary for everything that is played. Saved/restored stream
volumes are measured relative to this boundary, the factor here is
always < 1.0.
- introduce accuracy for sink volumes, similar to the accuracy we
already have for source volumes.
- other cleanups.
This of course makes the name 'fixed' a bit of a misnomer. However the
definitions are now like this:
fixed latency: the latency may change during runtime, but is solely
controlled by the backend, the client has no influence.
dynamic latency: the latency may change during runtime, influenced by
the requests of the clients.
i.e. fixed vs. dynamic is from the perspective of the client.
This adds pa_assert_io_context() and pa_assert_ctl_context() in addition
to a few related macros. When called they will fail when the current execution
context is not IO resp. not control context. (aka 'thread' context vs.
'main' context)
The reference volume is to be used as reference volume for stored stream
volumes. Previously if a new stream was created the relative volume was
taken relatively to the virtual device volume. Due to the flat volume
logic this could then be fed back to the virtual device volume.
Repeating the whole story over and over would result in a device volume
that would go lower, and lower and lower.
This patch introduces a 'reference' volume for each sink which stays
unmodified by stream volume changes even if flat volumes are used. It is
only modified if the sink volumes are modified directly by the user.
For further explanations see http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/InternalVolumes
- Add new PA_STREAM_FIX_CHANNELS, FIX_RATE, FIX_FORMAT, DONT_MOVE, VARIABLE_RATES to pa_sream_flags_t adn implement it
- Expose those flags in pacat
- Add notifications about device suspend/resume to the protocol and expose them in libpulse
- Allow changing of buffer_attr during playback
- allow disabling for remixing globally
- hookup polkit support
git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/pulseaudio/trunk@2067 fefdeb5f-60dc-0310-8127-8f9354f1896f
