This API internally checks if a requested codec can be supported on the
system. This is especially required for codecs supported via GStreamer
where the availability of a plugin decides if the said codec can be
supported.
This will be used to prevent registration of a codec which the remote
endpoint device might be able to support, but, PulseAudio can't as the
codec is not available on the system due to the absence of a plugin.
We can also prevent listing or switching to an unavailable codec.
Note that the codec negotiation happens with the bluez stack even before
a device is connected. Because of this, we need to make sure that gst_init
is called before checking for the availability of a plugin. Since
module-bluez5-device gets loaded only after a connection to the device
has been established, doing the gst_init in that or one of the bluetooth
modules is not feasible.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
For example, using the following on the command line will return the
current codec for a bluetooth device
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.4C_BC_98_80_01_9B/bluez get-codec
where 4C_BC_98_80_01_9B is the bluetooth device.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
This exposes the currently active codec on the source or sink via the
proplist and can be seen in output of pacmd list-sinks/list-sources.
Also set it on the card. In case of a bi-directional codec, the codec
for the sink and source could be different. For example, for aptX-LL,
the codec name on card, sink and source would be aptx-ll, aptx and sbc
respectively.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
For example, using the following on the command line will return the
list of possible codecs for a bluetooth device
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.4C_BC_98_80_01_9B/bluez list-codecs
where 4C_BC_98_80_01_9B is the bluetooth device.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
This adds a generic gstreamer codec module based on which other
bluetooth codecs viz. aptX, aptX-HD, LDAC and AAC can be supported.
The GStreamer codec plugins used here themselves depend on the native
codec implementation.
aptX/aptX-HD -> libopenaptx
LDAC -> libldac
AAC -> Fraunhofer FDK AAC
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
This uses the messaging API to initiate a codec switch.
While a particular codec might be applicable only for a particular
profile, for eg. aptX can only be applicable for A2DP sink or source
and not for let's say HSP, the codec switching logic has not been
tied to the logic for switching profiles.
Codec can be switched by running the following on the command line.
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec{"ldac_hq"}
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec {"ldac_mq"}
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec {"ldac_sq"}
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec {"aptx_hd"}
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec {"aptx"}
pacmd send-message /card/bluez_card.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX/bluez switch-codec {"sbc"}
Codec name passed above is matched against pa_a2dp_codec->name. Note that
the match is case sensitive. XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX needs to be substituted with
the actual bluetooth device id.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
Instead of letting a codec with higher index have higher priority,
just use a lower index for high priority. This allows the for loop
iterating over the codecs to be written in a straightforward manner
and not have to iterate from the end. FWIW Pipewire does the same.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440>
If the current active profile is off, it has no sinks and sources, and
if users plug a headset to the audio port, the profile including this
audio port becomes available and should be selected as active profile.
But with the current design, the profile_good_for_output() will return
false because the sources in off profile and target profile doesn't
match.
For example:
(Before users plug headset)
Profiles:
HiFi (Speaker): Default (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 8100, available: no)
HiFi (Headphones): Default (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 8200, available: no)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
Active Profile: off
(After users plug headset)
Profiles:
HiFi (Speaker): Default (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 8100, available: yes)
HiFi (Headphones): Default (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 8200, available: yes)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
Active Profile: off
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/354>
Volume scaling in dB mode is broken if max dB is negative.
I have a Nobsound USB amplifier (1908:2220) that reports a dB range
of -127.07 dB to -128 dB in Alsa.
While this is likely a driver/device bug, in my naive imagination
userspace wouldn't bother too much with the absolute values and just set
out_dB(percent) = min_dB + (max_dB - min_dB) * percent
However, this is not what PulseAudio is doing, instead max_dB is used
as base_volume with which the desired software volume is multiplied
while min_dB does not seem to be taken into account.
The result is that with this device only a tiny portion of the volume
slider is usable.
Setting it to 97% already reaches min_dB which effectively turns any
(software) audio knob to an on/off switch.
To work around this, simply set the has_dB flag to false if max_dB is
negative.
This falls back to using raw Alsa values (ranging from 0 - 255), now
the settings in pavucontrol perfectly mirror those in alsamixer.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/447>
For GNOME X11 sessions, avoid relying on xdg autostart desktop files
to initialize the X11 plugins. This is now handled via a systemd unit
file.
The xdg autostart is still installed, but has been made to instruct
GNOME to skip it with X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd. This is still the
primary way to initialize X11 plugins for other DEs.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/467>
The scripts in this directory are loaded (in GNOME sessions thus far)
at the time of starting Xwayland for X11 clients (may happen on session
start, or on demand whenever X11 clients are started).
This will ensure the relevant X11 modules are loaded as long as there's
a Xwayland instance, thus X11 clients that might make use of them.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/467>
After applying the commit 0d50e787 ("alsa-card: improve the profile
availability logic"), we met an new issue. when system selects the
initial profile, the profile off is selected instead of a profile with
a valid output device on it. That is the issue we met:
Profiles:
HiFi: Default (sinks: 2, sources: 2, priority: 8000, available: no)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
Active Profile: off
Ports:
[Out] Headphones: Headphones (priority: 300, latency offset: 0 usec, not available)
Part of profile(s): HiFi
[Out] Speaker: Speaker (priority: 100, latency offset: 0 usec)
Part of profile(s): HiFi
...
I know the commit 0d50e787 really fixed something, but we still need
to fix the new issue, to do so, this patch introduces a priority bonus
for alsa profiles and separate the alsa profiles to 3 groups:
group a (will be granted priority bonus dynamically):
a profile has only output ports and at least one port is not unavailable
a profile has only input ports and at least one port is not unavailable
a profile has both input and output ports, and at least one output and
one input ports are not unavailable
group b (will be marked unavailable)
a profile has only output ports and all ports are unavailable
a profile has only input ports and all ports are unavailable
a profile has both output and input ports, and all ports are unavailable
group c
the rest profiles, their priority and availability is not changed.
With this change, the profile HiFi will become avaialbe:yes, and will
not be granted priority bonus if no input port is plugged.
The priority bonus provides a higher priority base to profiles, this
guarantees this patch doesn't break the fix of 0d50e787.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/927
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/355>
WSAStartup was not being called for pacat and pactl built with meson,
causing them to fail in pa_mainloop_new with "cannot create wakeup
pipe". This issue also affects other applications linking to libpulse
other than the pulseaudio daemon, which calls WSAStartup itself.
When built with autotools, WSAStartup would have been called in
DllMain, which is recommended against by the documentation [1].
To fix these issues, the WSAStartup/WSACleanup calls can be moved
into pa_mainloop_new/pa_mainloop_free.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winsock/nf-winsock-wsastartup
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/456>
State database binary file format may depend on system architecture,
for instance gdbm binary format depends on architecture word size,
making x86 and x64 gdbm files incompatible.
If this is the case, it is handled by adding system architecture name to
database file name using automatically configured CANONICAL_HOST string.
Meson build define CANONICAL_HOST to be system architecture name, while
autotools build extends this with vendor and and operating system components.
Switch autotools build to use host_cpu for CANONICAL_HOST to match Meson
configuration. For backwards compatibility always use existing database file
matching CANONICAL_HOST prefix if it exists.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/425>
When an alsa source with fixed latency is used, the actual latency of the source
will only be one fragment size. This is not taken into account when the required
sink latency is calculated.
This patch fixes the issue.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/451>
