If calling ao->driver->wait() fails, we need to fallback to timeout-
based waiting. But it could be that at this point, the mutex was already
released (and then re-acquired). So we need to recheck the condition in
order to avoid missed wakeups.
This probably wasn't an actually occurring problem, but still could
cause a small race-condition window if the dynamic fallback is actually
used.
Especially with other components (libavcodec, OSX stuff), the thread
list can get quite populated. Setting the thread name helps when
debugging.
Since this is not portable, we check the OS variants in waf configure.
old-configure just gets a special-case for glibc, since doing a full
check here would probably be a waste of effort.
Don't wait after the audio thread has pushed the remaining audio to the
AO. Avoids hard hangs if the heuristic fails completely (could still
happen if get_delay returns absurd values).
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Since the internal AO driver API has no proper way to determine EOF, we
need to guess by querying get_delay. But some AOs (e.g. ao_pulse with
no-latency-hacks set) may never reach 0, maybe because they naively add
the latency to the buffer level. In this case our heuristic can break.
Fix by always using the delay to estimate the EOF time. It's not even
that important - it's mostly used to avoid blocking draining. So this
should be ok.
CC: @mpv-player/stable (maybe)
It was more complicated than it had to be: the audio thread already
determines whether audio has ended, so we can use that. Remove the
separate logic for draining.
Improve the logic how the audio thread decides how to wait until the AO
is ready for new data. The previous commit makes some of this easier,
although it turned out that it wasn't required, and we still can handle
AOs with bad get_space implementation (although the new code prints an
error message, and it might fail in obscure situations).
The new code is pretty similar to the old one, and the main thing that
changes is that complicated conditions are tweaked. AO waiting is now
used better (mainly instead of max>0, r>0 is used). Whether to wakeup
is reevaluated every time, instead of somehow doing the wrong thing
and compensating for it with a flag.
This fixes the specific situation when the device buffer is full, and
we don't want to buffer more data. In the old code, this wasn't handled
correctly: the AO went to sleep forever, because it prevented proper
wakeup by the AO driver, and as consequence never asked the core for new
data. Commit 4fa3ffeb was a hack-fix against this, and now that we have
a proper solution, this hack is removed as well.
Also make the refill threshold consistent and always use 1/4 of the
buffer. (The threshold is used for situations when an AO doesn't
support proper waiting or chunked processing.)
This commit will probably cause a bunch of regressions again.
With --gapless-audio=no, changing from one file to the next apparently
made it hang, until the player was woken up by unrelated events like
input. The reason was that the AO doesn't notify the player of EOF
properly. the played was querying ao_eof_reached(), and then just went
to sleep, without anything waking it up.
Make it event-based: the AO wakes up the playloop if the EOF state
changes.
We could have fixed this in a simpler way by synchronously draining the
AO in these cases. But I think proper event handling is preferable.
Fixes: #1069
CC: @mpv-player/stable (perhaps)
The audio/video sync code in player/audio.c calls ao_reset() each time
audio decoding is entered, but the player is paused, and there would be
more than 1 sample to skip to make audio start match with video start.
This caused a wakeup feedback loop with push.c.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
bstr.c doesn't really deserve its own directory, and compat had just
a few files, most of which may as well be in osdep. There isn't really
any justification for these extra directories, so get rid of them.
The compat/libav.h was empty - just delete it. We changed our approach
to API compatibility, and will likely not need it anymore.
The original intention was probably to avoid unnecessarily high numbers
of wakeups. Change it to wait at most 25% of buffer time instead of 75%
until refilling. Might help with the dsound problems in issue #1024, but
I don't know if success is guaranteed.
mp_make_wakeup_pipe() always fails on win32. If this call fails on Linux
(and e.g. ao_alsa is used), this will probably burn CPU since poll()
won't work on the invalid file descriptor, but whatever, the failure
case is obscure enough.
Logic for this was missing from pull.c. For push.c it was missing if the
driver didn't support it. But even if the driver supported it (such as
with ao_alsa), strange behavior was observed by users. See issue #933.
Always check explicitly whether the AO is in paused mode, and if so,
don't drain.
Possibly fixes#933.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
So the device buffer can be refilled quickly. Fixes dropouts in certain
cases: if all data is moved from the soft buffer to the audio device
buffer, the waiting code thinks it has to enter the mode in which it
waits for new data from the decoder. This doesn't work, because the
get_space() logic tries to keep the total buffer size down. get_space()
will return 0 (or a very low value) because the device buffer is full,
and the decoder can't refill the soft buffer. But this means if the AO
buffer runs out, the device buffer can't be refilled from the soft
buffer. I guess this mess happened because the code is trying to deal
with both AOs with proper event handling, and AOs with arbitrary
behavior.
Unfortunately this increases latency, as the total buffered audio
becomes larger. There are other ways to fix this again, but not today.
Fixes#818.
Apparently this can happen. So actually only return from waiting if ALSA
excplicitly signals that new output is available, or if we are woken up
externally.
This did not flush remaining audio in the buffer correctly (in case an
AO has an internal block size). So we have to make the audio feed thread
to write the remaining audio, and wait until it's done.
Checking the avoid_ao_wait variable should be enough to be sure that all
data that can be written was written to the AO driver.
This code handles buggy AOs (even if all AOs are bug-free, it's good for
robustness). Move handling of it to the AO feed thread. Now this check
doesn't require magic numbers and does exactly what's it supposed to do.
Until now, we've always calculated a timeout based on a heuristic when
to refill the audio buffers. Allow AOs to do it completely event-based
by providing wait and wakeup callbacks.
This also shuffles around the heuristic used for other AOs, and there is
a minor possibility that behavior slightly changes in real-world cases.
But in general it should be much more robust now.
ao_pulse.c now makes use of event-based waiting. It already did before,
but the code for time-based waiting was also involved. This commit also
removes one awkward artifact of the PulseAudio API out of the generic
code: the callback asking for more data can be reentrant, and thus
requires a separate lock for waiting (or a recursive mutex).
Use the time as returned by mp_time_us() for mpthread_cond_timedwait(),
instead of calculating the struct timespec value based on a timeout.
This (probably) makes it easier to wait for a specific deadline.
This didn't quite work. The main issue was that get_space tries to be
clever to reduce overall buffering, so it will cause the playloop to
decode and queue only as much audio as is needed to refill the AO in
reasonable time. Also, even if ignoring the problem, the logic of the
previous commit was slightly broken. (This required a few retries,
because I couldn't reproduce the issue on my own machine.)
When the audio buffer went low, but could not be refilled yet, it could
happen that the AO playback thread and the decode thread could enter a
wakeup feedback loop, causing up to 100% CPU usage doing nothing. This
happened because the decoder thread would wake up the AO thread when
writing 0 bytes of newly decoded data, and the AO thread in reaction
wakes up the decoder thread after writing 0 bytes to the AO buffer.
Fix this by waking up the decoder thread only if data was actually
played or queued. (This will still cause some redundant wakeups, but
will eventually settle down, reducing CPU usage close to ideal.)
The comment says that it wakes up the main thread if 50% has been
played, but in reality the value was 0.74/2 => 37.5%. Correct this. This
probably changes little, because it's a very fuzzy heuristic in the
first place.
Also move down the min_wait calculation to where it's actually used.
This was reported with PulseAudio 2.1. Apparently it still has problems
with reporting the correct delay. Since ao_pulse.c still has our custom
get_delay implementation, there's a possibility that this is our fault,
but this seems unlikely, because it's full of workarounds for issues
like this. It's also possible that this problem doesn't exist on
PulseAudio 5.0 anymore (I didn't explicitly retest it).
The check is general and works for all push based AOs. For pull based
AOs, this can't happen as pull.c implements all the logic correctly.
And also add a function ao_need_data(), which AO drivers can call if
their audio buffer runs low.
This change intends to make it easier for the playback thread: instead
of making the playback thread calculate a timeout at which the audio
buffer should be refilled, make the push.c audio thread wakeup the core
instead.
ao_need_data() is going to be used by ao_pulse, and we need to
workaround a stupid situation with pulseaudio causing a deadlock because
its callback still holds the internal pulseaudio lock.
For AOs that don't call ao_need_data(), the deadline is calculated by
the buffer fill status and latency, as before.
Since the addition of the AO feed thread, 200ms of latency (MIN_BUFFER)
was added to all push-based AOs. This is not so nice, because even AOs
with relatively small buffering (e.g. ao_alsa on my system with ~170ms
of buffer size), the additional latency becomes noticable when e.g.
toggling mute with softvol.
Fix this by trying to keep not only 200ms minimum buffer, but also 200ms
maximum buffer. In other words, never buffer beyond 200ms in total. Do
this by estimating the AO's buffer fill status using get_space and the
initially known AO buffer size (the get_space return value on
initialization, before any audio was played). We limit the maximum
amount of data written to the soft buffer so that soft buffer size and
audio buffer size equal to 200ms (MIN_BUFFER).
To avoid weird problems with weird AOs, we buffer beyond MIN_BUFFER if
the AO's get_space requests more data than that, and as long as the soft
buffer is large enough.
Note that this is just a hack to improve the latency. When the audio
chain gains the ability to refilter data, this won't be needed anymore,
and instead we can introduce some sort of buffer replacement function in
order to update data in the soft buffer.
Until now, this was always conflated with uninit. This was ugly, and
also many AOs emulated this manually (or just ignored it). Make draining
an explicit operation, so AOs which support it can provide it, and for
all others generic code will emulate it.
For ao_wasapi, we keep it simple and basically disable the internal
draining implementation (maybe it should be restored later).
Tested on Linux only.
This has 2 goals:
- Ensure that AOs have always enough data, even if the device buffers
are very small.
- Reduce complexity in some AOs, which do their own buffering.
One disadvantage is that performance is slightly reduced due to more
copying.
Implementation-wise, we don't change ao.c much, and instead "redirect"
the driver's callback to an API wrapper in push.c.
Additionally, we add code for dealing with AOs that have a pull API.
These AOs usually do their own buffering (jack, coreaudio, portaudio),
and adding a thread is basically a waste. The code in pull.c manages
a ringbuffer, and allows callback-based AOs to read data directly.
