Although half (non-fast track on sink rate) or one-third (non-fast track not on sink rate) of the buffer size of the created AudioTrack instance as the SL Enqueue buffer size is basically enough for dropout-free playback, only using the full size can avoid stutter upon (re)start of playback.
Here are the various buffer sizes on different track/sink rate when on Bluetooth audio on Android O:
aptX @ 48kHz:
Sink rate: 48000 Hz
44100 Hz: 10632 frames (241.09 ms)
48000 Hz: 11544 frames (240.50 ms)
88200 Hz: 21216 frames (240.54 ms)
96000 Hz: 23088 frames (240.50 ms)
176400 Hz: 42384 frames (240.27 ms)
192000 Hz: 46128 frames (240.25 ms)
SBC/AAC/aptX @ 44.1kHz:
Sink rate: 44100 Hz
44100 Hz: 10776 frames (244.35 ms)
48000 Hz: 11748 frames (244.75 ms)
88200 Hz: 21552 frames (244.35 ms)
96000 Hz: 23448 frames (244.25 ms)
176400 Hz: 43056 frames (244.08 ms)
192000 Hz: 46848 frames (244.00 ms)
The above results were produced with the following code:
import android.media.AudioAttributes;
import android.media.AudioFormat;
import android.media.AudioTrack;
class AudioInfo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int nosr = AudioTrack.getNativeOutputSampleRate(3);
System.out.printf("Sink rate: %d Hz\n", nosr);
int[] rates = {44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000};
for (int rate: rates) {
AudioAttributes aa = new AudioAttributes.Builder().setFlags(256).build();
AudioFormat af = new AudioFormat.Builder().setSampleRate(rate).build();
AudioTrack at = new AudioTrack(aa, af, 4, 1, 0);
int sr = at.getSampleRate();
int bs = at.getBufferSizeInFrames();
float ms = bs * (float) 1000 / sr;
at.release();
System.out.printf("%d Hz: %d frames (%.2f ms)\n", sr, bs, ms);
}
}
}
Therefore bumping the device buffer size to 250ms.
While the soft buffer size is already by default 200ms, it is not enough to guarantee dropout-free playback on Bluetooth audio. Bumping the device buffer size to the same value seems to suffice.
The af_get_best_sample_formats() function had an argument of
int[AF_FORMAT_COUNT], which is slightly incorrect, because it's 0
terminated and should in theory have AF_FORMAT_COUNT+1 entries. It won't
actually write this many formats (since some formats are fundamentally
incompatible), but it still feels annoying and incorrect. So fix it, and
require that callers pass an AF_FORMAT_COUNT+1 array.
Note that the array size has no meaning in C function arguments (just
another issue with C static arrays being weird and stupid), so get rid
of it completely.
Not changing the af_lavcac3enc use, since that is rewritten in another
branch anyway.
Long planned. Leads to some sanity.
There still are some rather gross things. Especially g_groups is ugly,
and a hack that can hopefully be removed. (There is a plan for it, but
whether it's implemented depends on how much energy is left.)
OpenSL ES is used on Android. At the moment only stereo output is
supported. Two options are supported: 'frames-per-buffer' and
'sample-rate'. To get better latency the user of libmpv should pass
values obtained from AudioManager.getProperty(PROPERTY_OUTPUT_FRAMES_PER_BUFFER)
and AudioManager.getProperty(PROPERTY_OUTPUT_SAMPLE_RATE).
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