Do not try and set/get master volume in exclusive if there is no
hardware support. This would just uselessly change the master slider,
but have no effect on the actual volume.
Furthermore if getting hardware volume support information fails, then assume
it has none.
It was complicated and not even very intuitive to the user.
If you are controlling the master volume, you just have to be
prepared to deal with the consequences.
If there were many AO drivers without device selection, this added a
"Default" entry for each AO. These entries were not distinguishable, as
the device list feature is meant not to require to display the "raw"
device name in GUIs.
Disambiguate them by adding the driver name. If the AO is the first, the
name will remain just "Default". (The condition checks "num > 1",
because the very first entry is the dummy for AO autoselection.)
Remove known useless device entries from the --audio-device list (and
corresponding property). Do this because the list is supposed to be a
high level list of devices the user can select. ALSA does not provide
such a list (in an useable manner), and ao_alsa.c is still in the best
position to improve the situation somewhat.
The ALSA doxygen says:
IOID - input / output identification ("Input" or "Output"), NULL
means both
This bug was blatantly introduced with commit cf94fce4.
Apparently, some audio drivers do not support the DTS subtype, but
passthrough works anyway if the AC3 subtype is set. Just retry with
AC3 if the proper format doesn't work. The audio device which
exposed this behavior reported itself as
"M601d-A3/A3R (Intel(R) Display Audio)".
xbmc/kodi even always passes DTS as AC3.
Essentially we'd use something random, just because it's part of the srt
of traditionally used ALSA channel mappings. But each driver can do its
own things.
This doesn't let me sleep at night, so remove it.
We need to effectively swap the last channel pair. See commit 4e358a96
and 5a18c5ea for details.
Doing this seems rather strange, as 7.1 just extends 5.1 with 2 new
speakers, and 5.1 doesn't need this change. Going by the HDMI standard
and the Intel HDA sources (cited in the referenced commits), it also
looks like 7.1 should simply append two channels to 5.1 as well. But
swapping them is apparently correct. This is also what XBMC does. (I
didn't find any other applications doing 7.1 PCM using the ALSA channel
map API. VLC seems to ignore the 7.1 case.) Testing reveals that at
least the end result is correct.
"Normal" ALSA 7.1 is unaffected by this, as it reports a different
(and saner) channel layout.
Instead of constructing an ALSA channel map from mpv ones from scratch,
try to find the original ALSA channel map again. Th result is that we
need to convert channel maps only in one direction. If we need to map
a mp_chmap to ALSA, we fetch the device's channel map list, convert
each entry to mp_chmap, and find the first one which fits.
This seems helpful for the following commit. For now, this only gets rid
of mapping back the trivial MONO mapping, which alone would still be
acceptable, but with other channel layout mogrifications it gets messy
fast. While we need to do something awkward to keep our channel map
reordering for VAR chmaps (which basically gives nicer output and
possibly slightly better performance), this is still the better
solution.
These calls actually can leave the ALSA configuration space empty (how
very useful), which is why snd_pcm_hw_params() can fail. An earlier
change intended to make this non-fatal, but it didn't work for this
reason.
Backup the old parameters, so we can retry with the non-empty
configuration space. (It has to be non-empty, because the previous
setters didn't fail.)
Note that the buffer settings are not very important to us. They're
a leftover from MPlayer, which needed to write enough data to the
audio device to not underrun while decoding and displaying a video
frame. In mpv, most of these things happen asynchronously, _and_
there is a dedicated thread just for feeding the audio device, so
we should be pretty imune even against extreme buffer settings. But
I suppose it's still useful to prevent PulseAudio from making the
buffer too large, so still keep this code.
Again, this could have bad access, is unlikely, and has no bad
consequences. It's noteworthy that vlc and the ALSA PCM example both do
this first, even if they set the sample rate later.
I'm worried that not restricting the access type before restricting the
format will cause problems. While it's unlikely, it might prevent
failures in some corner cases. Also, since we by default always use
interleaved access (buggy ALSA plugins), this will have no effects at
all.
If the API doesn't list padded channel maps, but the final device
channel map is padded, and if unpadded output is not possible (unlike in
the somewhat similar dmix case), then we shouldn't apply the channel
count mismatch fallback in the beginning. Do it after channel map
negotiation instead.
Doesn't matter much; effectively this prevents just log spam in some
cases where the map is legitimately padded. Normally this is really
only needed for the dmix ALSA case. (See git blame for details.)
Until recently, the channel layout code happened to catch this, but now
an explicit check is needed. Otherwise, it'd try to pad the missing
channels with NA in the channel map fallback code.
This is intended for the case when CoreAudio returns only unknown
channel layouts, or no channel layout matches the number of channels the
CoreAudio device forces. Assume that outputting stereo or mono to the
first channels is safe, and that it's better than outputting nothing.
It's notable that XBMC/kodi falls back to a static channel layout in
this case. For some messed up reason, the layout it uses happens to
match with the channel order in ALSA's/mpv's "7.1(alsa)" layout.
Share some code between ca_init_chmap() and ca_get_active_chmap(), which
also makes it look slightly nicer. No functional changes, other than the
additional log message.
If no channel layouts were determined (which can actually happen with
some "strange" devices), the selection code was falling back to mono,
because mono is always added as a fallback. This doesn't seem quite
right.
Allow a fallback to stereo too, if no channel layout could be retrieved
at all. So we always assume that mono and stereo work, if no other
layouts are available.
(I still don't know what the CoreAudio stereo layout is supposed to do.
It could be used to swap left and right channels. It could also be used
to pad/move the channels, but I have never seen that. And it can be set
to non-stereo channels, which breaks mpv. Whatever.)
mNumberChannelDescriptions being 0 is pretty much an error, but if it
can happen, then the code checking the chmap below will trigger UB, as
chmap is not initialized at all.
Also, simplify the code a little: we never change the number of
channels, so this is just fine.
Coreaudio gives us a channel map with all entries set to
kAudioChannelLabel_Unknown. This is translated to a mpv channel map with
all channels set to NA, which has special meaning: it's an "unknown"
channel map, which acts as wildcard and can be converted from/to any
channel layout. Not really what we want.
I've got this with USB audio, playing stereo. The multichannel layout
consisted of 2 unknown channels, while the stereo channel map was
stereo (as expected).
Note that channel maps with _some_ NA entries are not affected by this,
and must still work.
If the device returns an unexpected number of channels instead of the
requested count on init, don't immediately error out. Instead, look if
there's a channel map with the given number of channels.
If there isn't, still error out, because we don't want to guess the
channel layout.
