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.
- drop the 'virtual_' prefix from s->virtual_volume since we don't
distuingish between reference and real volumes for sources
- introduce an accuracy for source volumes: if the hardware can control
the volume "close enough" don't necessarily adjust the rest in
software unless it is beyond a certain threshold. This should save a
little bit of CPU at the expensive of a bit of accuracy in volume
handling.
- other minor 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)
In some situations a rewind request travelling downstream might be
optimized away on its way and an upstream rewind processing might never
come back. Hence, call _process_rewind() before each _render()just to
make sure we processed them all.
Completely rework mixer logic. This now allows controlling a full set of
elements from a single sink's volume slider/mute button.
This also introduces sink and source "ports" that can be used to choose
different input or output ports with the UI. (i.e. "mic"/"line-in" or
"speaker"/"headphones".
The mixer paths and device maps are now configered in external
configuration files and can be tweaked as necessary.
While flags should generally be initialized by passing them to
pa_{sink|source}_new() we make an exception for the volume related flags
which may be initilized afterwards, but before _put().
In case pa_*_move_all_fail(), it is nicer to let a module override the
default behavior to fallback on a different sink/source. (instead of
unlinking the sink_input/source_output)
