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.
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.
Currently if sink base volume differs from 0dB and sync-volume is used,
wrong volume values are written to hw. This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Juho Hämäläinen <ext-juho.hamalainen@nokia.com>
How about this? There are a couple of bugs in sink_write_volume_cb,
by the way. Another patch will be sent once this dB value printing
patch is accepted.
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Currently when rewinding alsa, a fixed value of 256 bytes is used,
which represents 1.33ms @ 48kHz (2ch, 16bit). This is typically fine
and due to DMA constraints we would not want to rewind less than this.
However with more demanding sample specs, (e.g. 8ch 192kHz 32bit)
256 bytes is likely not sufficient, so calculate what 1.33ms would
be and use which ever value is bigger.
Discussed with David Henningsson and Pierre-Louis Bossart here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/7286
Make new defines for the smoother window size and adjust time constants instead
of reusing some unrelated constant.
Increase the smoother window size even more because the bigger it is, the
better. Since we have a 200ms max update interval and the max smoother history
is 64 entries, 10seconds is a good default.
Decrease the smoother adjust time to 1 second. The previous value of 4 seconds
was too much to adapt quickly after a resume.
Use snd_pcm_avail_delay() in pa_alsa_safe_delay() so that we can check the delay
value against the avail value and patch it up when it looks invalid. Only do
this for capture.
This allows the name registry to mangle the names of auto-detected sinks and
sources to be unique, which makes it possible to load multiple identical sound
cards using module-udev-detect.
At least for now the module argument can only be passed through
module-alsa-card.
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>
This is required to when playing on a52: device, rewind is broken
in those plugins.
Credits to Michael Rans <mcarans@yahoo.co.uk> for finding this
workaround, and Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi> for providing
valuable feedback.
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@intel.com>
Positive base volume can happen, if the alsa volume range has been limited. For
example, in an embedded environment it may be known that the sound device is
capable of louder output than what the speakers can handle, so setting the max
volume below 0 dB makes sense.
Rewinding the ring buffer completely causes audible issues with DMAs.
Previous solution didn't work with tsched=0, and used tsched_watermark
for guardband, which isn't linked to hardware and could become really high
if underflows occurred.
Added separate parameter that can be tuned to hardware limitations and size
of DMA bursts.
In virtual machines sound card clocks and OS scheduling tend to become
unreliable, adding various 'uneven' latencies. The adaptive algorithm
that handles drop-outs does not handle it this well: in contrast to
drop-outs on real machines that are evenly distributed, small and can
easily be encountered via the adpative algorithms, drop-outs in VMs tend
to happen abruptly, and massively, which is not easy to counter.
This patch simply disables timer based scheduling in VMs reverting to
classic IO based scheduling. This should help make PA perform better in
VMs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532775
- As discussed on alsa-devel it's probably better to initialize the
buffer size first, followed by the period size. If that fails try the
other way round. If that fails try to configure only buffer size. If
that fails try to configure only period size. Finally, try to
configure neither.
- Don't require integral periods anymore.
Both of these changes should help improving compatibility with various
weirder sound devices, such as TV cards.
Exponentially increase the amount of time between smoother updates. We start
with a 2ms interval and increase up to 200ms intervals.
Smoother updates and the resulting linear regression take a fair amount of CPU
so we want to reduce the amount of updates.
- 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.
Error from snd_pcm_rewind() might mean we just woke up from suspend and
didn't have a chance to try to recover the stream since we didn't write
to it in between. Call try_recover() in such cases.
Note that for this to work kernel must return ESTRPIPE instead of EBADF
for rewind/forward attempts on suspended streams, so that
snd_pcm_recover() can recognize it should snd_pcm_resume() the stream.
This is not the case yet (2.6.31-rc5), patch is available.
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
