Using the default output audio unit should provide a much better user
exeperience since it changes automatically the output device based on which
becomes the default one.
This was removed in d427b4fd. I now found a sample that causes underruns when
moving to a chapter and apparently this is also a problem when taking
screenshots.
This is not done automatically by CoreAudio. I am told that it would a PITA
to have to switch back the format manually on the device (especially if the
same device is used for lpcm output).
b2f9e0610 introduced this functionality with code that was quite 'monolithic'.
Split the functionality over several functions and ose the new macros to get
array properties.
Introduce some macros to deal with properties. These allow to work around the
limitation of CoreAudio's API being `void **` based. The macros allow to keep
their client's code DRY, by not asking size and other details which can be
derived by the macro itself. I have no idea why Apple didn't design their API
like this in the first place.
* ao_coreaudio_utils: contains several utility function
* ao_coreaudio_properties: contains functions to set and get audio object
properties.
Conflicts:
audio/out/ao_coreaudio.c
The condition was checked wrongly on asbd which is the input format
description. This lead to the condition always being true, thus selecting lpcm
streams for digital input.
The initialization is split more clearly between compressed and lpcm case.
For the compressed case, format selection is simplified a lot and negotiation
removed. The way it was written it just passed back to the core the original
requested format, not what was found available on hardware.
Since this is most likely useless for the compressed case, I didn't bother
with this. In the future I'd like to split this AO in two one that only uses
the AUHAL and the other with direct access to the hardware so that even
passthrough of lcpm can be possible. This would decrease the latency,
audiophiles would like that.
Split out some utility functions that use the CoreAudio API but are not related
the main task of the AOs (which is to move data correctly to the ringbuffer).
These are mainly need for the verbosity of the CoreAudio API and are just
obscuring the 'real' code.
Read only the requested amount by the AUHAL (instead of all the buffered data).
No idea what the deal is with pausing the audio units if there is no audio to
play, maybe to avoid underruns of some sort. Anyway from my tests this
condition never occurred so I'm removing it all.
The core didn't use these fields, and use of them was inconsistent
accross AOs. Some didn't use them at all. Some only set them; the values
were completely unused by the core. Some made full use of them.
Remove these fields. In places where they are still needed, make them
private AO state.
Remove the --abs option. It set the buffer size for ao_oss and ao_dsound
(being ignored by all other AOs), and was already marked as obsolete. If
it turns out that it's still needed for ao_oss or ao_dsound, their
default buffer sizes could be adjusted, and if even that doesn't help,
AO suboptions could be added in these cases.
Currently every single AO was implementing it's own ringbuffer, many times
with slightly different semantics. This is an attempt to fix the problem.
I stole some good ideas from ao_portaudio's ringbuffer and went from there.
The main difference is this one stores wpos and rpos which are absolute
positions in an "infinite" buffer. To find the actual position for writing /
reading just apply modulo size.
The producer only modifies wpos while the consumer only modifies rpos. This
makes it pretty easy to reason about and make the operations thread safe by
using barriers (thread safety is guaranteed only in the Single-Producer/Single-
Consumer case).
Also adapted ao_coreaudio to use this ringbuffer.