If no-block was given, the device would be opened with SND_PCM_NOBLOCK.
Also, after opening, blocking mode was unconditionally enabled anyway
with snd_pcm_nonblock(). Further, if opening with SND_PCM_NOBLOCK
failed, opening was retried without this flag.
This doesn't make any sense to me, and I've never heard of someone using
this suboption. I suspect it has to do with ancient ALSA bugs or API
caveats. Remove it and simplify the code.
Some ALSA plugins take non-interleaved audio, but treat it as
interleaved, which results in various funny bugs. Users keep hitting
this issue, and it just doesn't seem worth the trouble.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Add an option that enables using native PulseAudio auto-updated timing
information, instead of the manual calculations added in mplayer2 times.
You can use --ao=pulse:no-latency-hacks to enable the new code. The code
is almost the same as the code that was removed with commit de435ed5,
but I didn't readd some bits I didn't understand. Likewise, the option
will disable the code added with that commit.
In my tests this seemed to work well, though the A/V sync display looks
funny when seeking.
The default is still the old behavior.
See issue #959.
