When a passthrough sink-input is added, we need to reconfigure the
sink's sample rate since no resampling occurs. We revert to the original
rate when the passthrough sink-input is removed.
In most cases it is expected that clients cannot consume compressed
data from monitor sources, so we suspend the monitor source when the
sink goes into passthrough mode.
Eventually, when the extended API includes client notifications for
changed formats, we should emit a notification on the monitor so that
clients can decide what they want to do when this happens (disconnect or
consume the data anyway).
This will eventually be replaced by a hook to let clients know that the
stream has moved so that they can gracefully reconnect and renegotiate a
supported format.
We frequently need to free an idxset containing pa_format_infos, so
define an internal free function that can be used directly with this
(instead of defining it once-per-file).
This is just sync-playback.c modified to use the extended API. We need
something more sophisticated for properly testing the compressed
formats, but that is a non-trivial task in itself.
This removes the passthrough flag from sinks since we will drop
exclusively passthrough sinks in favour of providing a list of formats
supported by each sink. We can still determine whether a sink is in
passthrough mode by checking if any non-PCM streams are attached to it.
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 adds a get_formats() vfunc for sinks to provide a list of formats
they can support. pa_sink_check_formats() can be used during or after
routing to determine what formats from a stream the sink can support.
(Based on Colin's review) We mark modules as being autoloaded so that
they can handle this as a special case if needed (which is required by
module-echo-cancel for now). This inverts how things were done and makes
using these modules manually less error-prone.
When using transport configured via Media API sample spec needs to be
updated since codec configuration may affect it when e.g. headset
configure a different frequency or number of channels from default.
Commit 65ef80b fixed building with xcb-util >= 0.3.8, but the reply is never
checked (possible SIGSEGV if the reply is NULL) nor freed (memory leak at each
call of the functions).
Also, remove include and dependencies on xcb-atom, as it was only meaningful
for xcb_atom_get() and STRING, and depend instead on xcb >= 1.6 for
XCB_ATOM_STRING.
If u->connections isn't empty when module-dbus-protocol is
unloaded, then connection_free() is called for the
remaining connections when the idxset is freed.
connection_free() tries to remove the connection from the
idxset, but that fails, because the item has already been
removed from the idxset in this scenario.
The problem is solved by not trying to remove the connection
from the idxset in connection_free(). Instead, whoever wants
to delete connections, has to remove the connection from the
idxset in addition to calling connection_free().
This patch adds a new update mode specifier that can be optionally
given in match rules after the regexp. Property list updates triggered
by the rule will honour the given mode. The two allowed modes are 'merge'
and 'replace', corresponding to PA_UPDATE_MERGE and PA_UPDATE_REPLACE
respectively. If omitted, the mode defaults to PA_UPDATE_MERGE, ie. to
the original behavior.
For example, to force 'media.role' to be overwritten with 'bar' for
streams matching foo you can use an entry like this:
foo replace "bar"
This will really overwrite media.role to bar even if it has already been
set to something else by the application.
Thanks to Krisztian Litkey for the original patch and the description
above. In addition to implementing the new feature, this patch fixes
a number of bugs in the parsing code.
It's possible that the memblockq of a sink input is rewound to a negative read
index if the sink input is moved between sinks shortly after its creation. When
this happens, pa_memblockq_peek() returns a memchunk whose 'memblock' field is
NULL and whose 'length' field indicates the length of the gap caused by the
negative read index. This will trigger an assert in play-memblockq.c.
If the memblockq had a silence memchunk, pa_memblockq_peek() would return
silence for the duration of the gap and the assert would be avoided. However,
this approach would prevent the sink input from being drained and is thus not
possible. Instead, we handle the aforementioned situation by dropping the gap
indicated by the 'length' field of the memchunk and by peeking the actual data
that comes after the gap.
This scenario seems to be quite rare in everyday use, but it causes a severe
bug in the handheld world. The assert can be triggered e.g. by loading two null
sinks, playing a sample from the cache to one of them and then moving the
created sink input between the two sinks. The rewinds done by the null sinks
seem to be quite long (I don't know if this is normal behaviour or something
fishy in module-null-sink).
See also:
6bd34156b1
virtual-sink: Fix a crash when moving the sink to a new master right after setup.
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-February/009105.html
Reproduce:
This problem can be reproduced with the following script:
SAMPLE_PATH="/usr/share/sounds/alsa/"
SAMPLE="Front_Left"
pactl remove-sample $SAMPLE 2> /dev/null
pactl upload-sample $SAMPLE_PATH$SAMPLE.wav
mod1=`pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=null1`
mod2=`pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=null2`
pactl play-sample $SAMPLE null1
input=`pactl list | grep "Sink Input #" | tail -n 1 | cut -d# -f2`
echo "Sample $SAMPLE playing as Sink Input #$input"
pactl move-sink-input $input null2
pactl move-sink-input $input null1
pactl unload-module $mod1
pactl unload-module $mod2
With automaticl filter loading by module-filter-apply, setting the
virtual sink/source to have the "phone" intended role will break routing
when you first connect a phone stream to an ALSA device and then turn on
your Bluetooth headset. This happens because module-intended-roles
doesn't move a stream if it is already on a device that provides the
required role.
This patch introduces a "manual_load" parameter that is meant to be used
when not using module-filter-apply for loading the AEC module. If this
parameter is set, the virtual devices are given the "phone" role, else
we count on module-filter-heuristics to do the right thing.
This makes the core code in the filter-* modules generic enough to be
used on sources or sinks. We need special handling for modules that
introduce more than one sink (for now echo-cancel only).
This makes sure that we handle streams moving between sinks properly. To
do this, we change the way the filter.* properties are handled a little
bit.
Firstly, this splits up the "filter.apply" property into two properties
- "filter.want" and "filter.apply". "filter.apply" acts as before - it
bypasses module-filter-heuristics and directly tells module-filter-apply
what filters are to be applied.
"filter.want" is used to tell module-filter-heuristics what filters the
client wants. The module then decides whether to actually apply the
filter or not (for now, this makes sure we don't apply echo-cancellation
even if requested on phone sinks (where it is assumed AEC is taken care
of or is not required).
Next, we also make sure that we track whether the client set
"filter.apply" or module-filter-heuristics did - and in the latter case,
we recalculate "filter.apply" and then have module-filter-apply apply
the filter if required. This introduces some evil in the form of causing
the move_finish callback to possibly trigger another move, but we
protect for this case (with a property) to be doubly sure of not causing
an infinite loop.
