[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Two patches for Alsa-plugins (pulse)

[David Henningsson]

2010-07-29 09:11, Raymond Yau skrev:
> 2010/7/10 David Henningsson <launchpad.web at epost.diwic.se>
>>> The biggest drawback by this change is that whether the sound goes
>>> well or not isn't reported any more to the application layer.
>>> It's an unfortunate design, but it's life with PA.
>>
>> The question is - is there an application that detects the underrun
>> condition and actually acts on that condition? If so, this could be a
>> regression for that app. For other apps it's an improvement, for the
>> reasons originally stated.
>>
>>
> This patch by Lennart Poettering should answer your question
> 
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=commit;h=660e0f16145167a966e9b8387e9a8e08274a8f7c

Okay, so we've broken XMMS, at least the 2007 version of it?

The better solution to this problem would be to add a write_pointer to
the xrun callback (and PA's native protocol), so we can detect whether
the underrun is obsolete or not and act accordingly.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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