If the virtual sink is moved to a new master right after it has been created,
then the virtual sink input's memblockq can be rewound to a negative read
index. The data written prior to the move starts from index zero, so after the
rewind there's a bit of silence. If the memblockq doesn't have a silence
memchunk set, then pa_memblockq_peek() will return zero in such case, and the
returned memchunk's memblock pointer will be NULL.
That scenario wasn't taken into account in the implementation of
sink_input_pop_cb. Setting a silence memchunk for the memblockq solves this
problem, because pa_memblock_peek() will now return a valid memblock if the
read index happens to point to a hole in the memblockq.
I believe this isn't the best possible solution, though. It doesn't really make
sense to rewind the sink input's memblockq beyond index 0 in the first place,
because now when the stream starts to play to the new master sink, there's some
unnecessary silence before the actual data starts. This is a small problem,
though, and I don't grok the rewinding system well enough to know how to fix
this issue properly.
I went through all files that call pa_memblockq_peek() to see if there are more
similar bugs. play-memblockq.c was the only one that looked to me like it might
be broken in the same way. I didn't try reproducing the bug with
play-memblockq.c, though, so I just added a FIXME comment there.
When we have a filter sink that does some processing, currently the
benefits of the flat volume feature are not really available. That's
because if you have a music player that is connected to the filter sink,
the hardware sink doesn't have any idea of the music player's stream
volume.
This problem is solved by this "volume sharing" feature. The volume
sharing feature works so that the filter sinks that want to avoid the
previously described problem declare that they don't want to have
independent volume, but they follow the master sink volume instead.
The PA_SINK_SHARE_VOLUME_WITH_MASTER sink flag is used for that
declaration. Then the volume logic is changed so that the hardware
sink calculates its real volume using also the streams connected to the
filter sink in addition to the streams that are connected directly to
the hardware sink. Basically we're trying to create an illusion that
from volume point of view all streams are connected directly to the
hardware sink.
For that illusion to work, the volumes of the filter sinks and their
virtual streams have to be managed carefully according to a set of
rules:
If a filter sink follows the hardware sink volume, then the filter sink's
* reference_volume always equals the hw sink's reference_volume
* real_volume always equals the hw sink's real_volume
* soft_volume is always 0dB (ie. no soft volume)
If a filter sink doesn't follow the hardware sink volume, then the filter
sink's
* reference_volume can be whatever (completely independent from the hw sink)
* real_volume always equals reference_volume
* soft_volume always equals real_volume (and reference_volume)
If a filter sink follows the hardware sink volume, and the hardware sink
supports flat volume, then the filter sink's virtual stream's
* volume always equals the hw sink's real_volume
* reference_ratio is calculated normally from the stream volume and the hw
sink's reference_volume
* real_ratio always equals 0dB (follows from the first point)
* soft_volume always equals volume_factor (follows from the previous point)
If a filter sink follows the hardware sink volume, and the hardware sink
doesn't support flat volume, then the filter sink's virtual stream's
* volume is always 0dB
* reference_ratio is always 0dB
* real_ratio is always 0dB
* soft_volume always equals volume_factor
If a filter sink doesn't follow the hardware sink volume, then the filter
sink's virtual stream is handled as a regular stream.
Since the volumes of the virtual streams are controlled by a set of rules,
the user is not allowed to change the virtual streams' volumes. It would
probably also make sense to forbid changing the filter sinks' volume, but
that's not strictly necessary, and currently changing a filter sink's volume
changes actually the hardware sink's volume, and from there it propagates to
all filter sinks ("funny" effects are expected when adjusting a single
channel in cases where all sinks don't have the same channel maps).
This patch is based on the work of Marc-André Lureau, who did the
initial implementation for Pulseaudio 0.9.15.
This will allow modules to know when a card profile has changed
and take appropriate action. This might prove useful when developing
UCM so that the appropriate verb can be set.
This allows modules to know when certain ports are changed.
This will allow e.g. a filter module (or LADSAP) to only load
when a certain port is used on the device (e.g. to only filter
headphones and not normal speakers).
(Comment from Colin Guthrie: This may also have use in UCM)
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.
The check whether POSIX socket.h or WIN32 winsock2.h must be included can be
made centrally. The downside is that some functionality of e.g. arpa/inet.h is
also implemented in winsock.h, so that some files that don't use socket
functions, but do use inet.h functions, must also include pulsecore/socket.h.
(as well as arpa/inet.h)
Instead <pulsecore/poll.h> should be included. That file includes poll.h on
platform where it is appropriate. Also remove some unnecessary <ioctl.h>
includes.
In theory putenv could be used to handle freeing of strings yourself, but this
was not done in PulseAudio. That leaves no advantages in using putenv. With
setenv you're at the mercy of the implementation whether the strings leak, but
at least that is better then a certain leak, as it was before.
If many small blocks are in queue, handle_seek is being called
for every one of them, sometimes causing a rewind. Delay the
call until all blocks are handled, then call handle_seek only
once.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Allow a message in the queue to perform both a seek and a post data.
For clients that do not use PA_SEEK_RELATIVE (e g gstreamer), this
cuts the message count - and sometimes even the rewinds - in half.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
When logging a suppression message do so on the same log level as the
suppressed messages.
Cherry picked by Colin Guthrie from ec5a785712
with a couple of additional changes due to extra limiting in master
that was not present in stable-queue.
In the file src/pulsecore/random.c
I found that the log information "Failed to get proper entropy. Falling
back to seeding with current time." would never be printed.
This change corrects the issue.
This is needed to better support out of tree builds (including
distcheck) and to ensure the necessary folders are created in the
build tree on configure and also works around an intl-tools bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/605826)
The Makefile.am's used are minimal (and in some cases completely
blank). At present they do not include anything interesting
with the majority of the real work still done by the monolitic
src/Makefile.am
It may make sense to start splitting out src/Makefile.am into
smaller chunks but this commit makes the minimum changes to address
the issues that result from using make distcheck and other out of
tree builds.
Note: This 'breaks' the ability to type make in e.g. the src/modules
folder and have all of PA rebuilt accordingly (this is because the
static Makefiles previously present just did a "make -C ..") which
was purportedly for use in emacs. But I'm sure there will be a better
and more robust way to configure emacs to do your builds properly if
this behaviour is still desirable.
This ensures that the build does not fail if the ssat and pkhbt
instructions are not available (armv5te and below).
Fixes: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/790
The old free list implementation used objects in FIFO style. This is
bad because it tries keep all the objects ever used alive and in
memory. This minimizes the changes that an allocated object is already
in cache. When there is shortage of physical memory this may also
increase change that newly allocated object is swapped out. LIFO
(e.g. stack) style free list should help these issues. Like the old
one the new implementation is also lock free. This version (v2.1) of
the patch has a potential weakness fixed. The previous version (2.0)
did segfault when popping from empty flist, this does not.
