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.
Reportedly fixes operation with "USB connected Parasound ZDAC v.2". (OSX
and USB audio sure is not nice at all.)
This might be perceived as hang by some users, so it's quite possible
that this will have to be adjusted again somehow.
Fixes#2409.
The manpage entry explains this.
(Maybe this option could be always enabled and removed. I don't quite
remember what valid use-cases there are for just disabling audio
entirely, other than that this is also needed for audio decoder init
failure.)
Make the code a bit more uniform. Always build a "dummy" audio output
list before probing, which means that opening preferred devices and
pure auto-probing is done with the same code. We can drop the second
ao_init() call.
This also makes the next commit easier, which wants to selectively
fallback to ao_null. This could have been implemented by passing a
different requested audio output list (instead of reading it from
MPOptions), but I think it's better if this rather special feature
is handled internally in the AO code. This also makes sure the AO
code can handle its own options (such as the audio output list) in
a self-contained way.
This can happen with USB audio. There was already code for this, but
something in mpv and ALSA changed - and now the old code is not
necessarily triggered anymore. It probably depends on the exact
situation.
This could sometimes cause crashes in hotplug events. (Apparently in
cases when CoreAudio changes its state asynchronously, or such.)
CA_GET_STR() does not set the string if there was an error, so errors
have to be strictly checked before using it.
This is just a refactor, which makes it use the previously introduced
function, and allows us to make af_format_conversion_score() private.
(We drop 2 unlikely warning messages too... who cares.)
So snd_device_name_get_hint() return values do in fact have to be freed.
Also, change listing semantics slightly: if io==NULL, skip the entry,
instead of assuming it's an output device.
Revert "win32: more wchar_t -> WCHAR replacements"
Revert "win32: replace wchar_t with WCHAR"
Doing a "partial" port of this makes no sense anymore from my
perspective. Revert the changes, as they're confusing without
context, maintenance, and progress. These changes were a bit
premature anyway, and might actually cause other issues
(locale neutrality etc. as it was pointed out).
This was essentially missing from commit 0b52ac8a.
Since L"..." string literals have the type wchar_t[], we can't use them
for UTF-16 strings. Use C11 u"..." string literals instead. These have
the type char16_t[], but we simply assume char16_t is the same
underlying type as WCHAR. In practice, they're both unsigned short.
For this reason use -std=c11 on Windows. Since Windows is a "special"
environment (we require either MinGW or Cygwin), we don't need to worry
too much about compiler compatibility.
WCHAR is more portable. While at least MinGW, Cygwin, and MSVC actually
use 16 bit wchar_t, Midipix will have 32 bit wchar_t. In that context,
using WCHAR instead is more portable.
This affects only non-MinGW parts, so not all uses of wchar_t need to
be changed. For example, terminal-win.c won't be used on Midipix at
all. (Most of io.c won't either, so the search & replace here is more
than necessary, but also not harmful.)
(Midipix is not useable yet, so this is just preparation.)
ao_coreaudio (using AudioUnit) accounted only for part of the latency -
move the code in ao_coreaudio_exclusive to utils, and use that for the
AudioUnit code.
(There's still the question why CoreAudio and AudioUnit require you to
jump through hoops this much, but apparently that's how it is.)
Until now, this was for AC3 only. For PCM, we used AudioUnit in
ao_coreaudio, and the only reason ao_coreaudio_exclusive exists
is that there is no other way to passthrough AC3.
PCM support is actually rather simple. The most complicated
issue is that modern OS X versions actually do not support
copying through the data; instead everything must go through
float. So we have to deal with virtual and physical format
being different, which causes some complications.
This possibly also doesn't support some other things correctly.
For one, if the device allows non-interleaved output only, we
will probably fail. (I couldn't test it, so I don't even know
what is required. Supporting it would probably be rather
simple, and we already do it with AudioUnit.)
Mapping of spdif formats was imperfect. Since the first format on the
list is somehow AAC, it was returned first, which is confusing, because
CoreAudio calls all spdif formats AC3. Since the spdif formats have some
rather arbitrary, reverse mapping the formats didn"t actually work
either. Fix by explicitly ignoring these when spdif is used.
Also, don't forget to set the samplerate in ca_asbd_to_mpformat(), or it
will work only in some cases.
May help with (supposedly) bad drivers, which can put the device into
some sort of broken state when trying to set a different physical
format. When the previous format is restored, it apparently recovers.
This might make the change-physical-format suboption more robust.
We can be pretty sure that AudioUnit will remix for us.
Before this commit, we usually upmixed to stereo, because the
stereo and multichannel layouts were the only whitelisted ones.
Replace all the check macros with function calls. Give them all the
same case and naming schema.
Drop af_fmt2bits(). Only af_fmt2bps() survives as af_fmt_to_bytes().
Introduce af_fmt_is_pcm(), and use it in situations that used
!AF_FORMAT_IS_SPECIAL. Nobody really knew what a "special" format
was. It simply meant "not PCM".
This may or may not fix some issues with the format switching
code. Actually, it seems somewhat unlikely, but then checking
the stream type isn't incorrect either, and is probably
something the API user should always be doing.
Originally, this was written for comparing the sample format only, but
ca_change_physical_format_sync() actually expects that the full format
is compared. (For all other uses it doesn't matter.)
So apparently, this essentially happens when the kernel driver doesn't
implement write accesses in the channel map control. Which doesn't
necessarily mean that the channel map is unsupported, or that there is a
bug - it's just lazyness and a consequence of the terrible ALSA kernel
API for the channel mapping stuff.
In these cases, the channel count implicitly selects the channel map,
and snd_pcm_set_chmap() always fails with ENXIO.
I'm actually not sure what happens if dmix is on top of e.g. HDMI, which
actually lets you change the channel mapping.
I'm also not sure why commit d20e24e5d1614354e9c8195ed0b11fe089c489e4
(alsa-lib git repository) does not take care of this.
They are useless. Not only are they actually rarely in use; but
libavcodec doesn't even output them, as libavcodec has no such sample
formats for decoded audio.
Even if it should happen that we actually still need them (e.g. if doing
direct hardware output), there are better solutions. Swapping the sign
is a fast and lossless operation and can be done inplace, so AO actually
needing it could do this directly.
If you wonder why we keep U8 instead of S8: because libavcodec does it.
Channel maps reported by the device as SND_CHMAP_TYPE_VAR can be freely
reordered. We don't use this much (out of laziness), but in this case
it's a simple way to reduce necessary reordering (which would be an
extra libavresample invocation), and to make debug output more readable.
If you try to play surround with dmix, it will advertise surround and
lets you set more than 2 channels, but will report a stereo channel map,
with the extra channels identified as NA. We could handle this now, but
we don't want to (because it's excessively stupid).
Do it only if the channel map is not what we requested, instead of just
acting if it contains NA entries at all. This avoids that we hurt
ourselves in the unlikely but possible case we actually have to use
channel maps with NA entries.
If the audio API takes a while for starting the audio callback, the
current heuristic can be off. In particular, with very short files, it
can happen that the audio callback is not called before playback is
stopped, so no audio is output at all.
Change draining so that it essentially waits for the ringbuffer to
empty. The assumption is that once the audio API has read the data
via the callback, it will always output it, even if the audio API
is stopped right after the callback has returned.
If a frame could only be partially filled with real audio data, the
silence wasn't written at the correct offset. It could have happened
that the remainder of the frame contained garbage.
(This didn't happen in the more common case of playing dummy silence.)
Listening to kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceHasChanged does not send any
property change notifications when the device dies. Makes no sense,
but I suppose in CoreAudio logic a dead/removed device can't send
any notifications.
This caused the player to essentially pause playback if the audio
device was removed during playback.
Fix by listening to the kAudioHardwarePropertyDevices property too,
which will actually be sent in this specific case. Then, if
querying the already dead device fails, we know we have to reload.
In short, instead of letting the coreaudio property listener set atomic
flags (which are then polled), make the property listeners actually
active.
The format change listener used during audio output now simply calls
ao_request_reload() on its own. All code involved is thread-safe, so
there's no need to do it during this audio callback (we assumed the
callback was never run concurrently with itself).
The listener installed temporarily during ca_change_format() is changed
to post a semaphore. Get rid of the weird retry logic and replace it
with a flat loop + timeout. It appears the maximum wait time could be
2500ms; reduce the total timeout to 500ms instead.
There is not much of a reason to have these wrappers around. Use POSIX
standard functions directly, and use a separate utility function to take
care of the timespec calculations. (Course POSIX for using this weird
format for time values.)
Sometimes, ALSA will return channel layouts with padded channels (NA
speakers). Use them instead of failing.
This still includes the old "braindeath" code to retry with a layout
without NA channels. This might be helpful for performance, and also the
padded channel layout string looks confusing.
To be fair, I have not encountered a case yet which would really need
this, and for which the old "braindeath" code did not fix it.
volatile barely means anything.
The polling is kind of bad too, but relatively harmless as device
opening/closing is a rare event, and the format change is not expected
to take long.
Remove the pointless talloc call too (must have been a leftover
from previous refactoring).
No reason to keep them separate. It's an artifact from the old
ao_coreaudio.c, which kept usage of two different APIs in the same file.
Removes a forward reference too.
Instead of trying to use af_format_conversion_score() (which tries to be
all kinds of clever), just compare the raw bits as a quality measure. Do
this because otherwise, weird formats like padded 24 bit formats will be
excluded, even though they might be the highest precision formats for
some hardware.
This means that for now, the user would have to check whether the format
is usable at all before calling ca_asbd_is_better(). But since this is
currently only used for ao_coreaudio.c and for the physical format, it
doesn't matter.
If coreaudio-exclusive should get PCM support, the best would be to
revert this change, and to add support for 24 bit formats directly.
Move all of the channel map retrieval/negotiation code to a separate
file. This will (probably) be helpful when extending
ao_coreaudio_exclusive.c.
Nothing else changes, other than some minor cosmetics and renaming,
and changing some details for decoupling it from the ao_coreaudio.c
internals.
It appears this is the reason coreaudio-exclusive does not work without
explicitly specifying a device, even if the default device maps to
something passthrough-capable.
Instead of always picking a somehow better format over the previous one,
select a format that is equal to or better the requested format, but is
also reasonably close.
Drop the mFormatID comparison - checking the sample format handles this
already.
Make sure to exclude channel counts that can't be used.
If for example the physical format is set to stereo, the reported
multichannel layout will actually be stereo. It fixes itself only after
the physical format is changed.
ao_coreaudio uses AudioUnit - the OSX software mixer. In theory, it
supports multichannel audio just fine. But in practice, this might be
disabled by default, and the user is supposed to select a multichannel
base format in the "Audio MIDI Setup" utility.
This option attempts to change this setting automatically. Some possible
disadvantages and caveats are listed in the manpage additions. It is off
by default, since changing this might be rather bad behavior for a
normal application.
If for example the audio settings are set to 5.1 output, but the
hardware does 8 channels natively (HDMI), the reported channel
layout will have 2 dummy channels. To avoid falling back to stereo,
we have to write audio in this format to the device.
ca_label_to_mp_speaker_id() checked whether the last entry was >= 0, but
actually this condition was never true, and MP_SPEAKER_ID_UNKNOWN0 is
not negative.
This should for now be equivalent; it's merely more explicit and will
be required if we add PCM support.
Note that the property listeners actually tell you what property
exactly changed, but resolving the current listener mess would be too
hard. So check for changes manually.
Useful with some of the following commits.
ca_fill_asbd() should behave exactly as before.
Instead of actually implementing the inverse function of ca_fill_asbd(),
just loop over the (small) list of mpv functions and check if any mpv
equivalent to a given ASBD exists.
kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger implicates that it's only used with
integer formats. The mpv internal flag on the other hand signals the
presence of a sign, and this is set on float formats.
Until now, this probably worked fine, because at least AudioUnit is
ignoring the uncorrect flag.
mp_chmap_from_channels_alsa() doesn't always succeed - there are a bunch
of channel counts for which no defined ALSA layout exists. Fallback to
stereo in this case. (Normally, this code path shouldn't happen at all.)
Silence the usually user-visible warning about unsupported channel maps.
This might be an ALSA bug, but ALSA will never fix this behavior anyway.
(Or maybe it's a feature.)
Log some other information that might be useful.
The message log level shouldn't get to decide whether something fails
or not. So replace the fatal error check on the verbose output code
path with a warning.
* unify passthrough and pcm exclusive mode format setting/testing
* set passthrough format parameters correctly
* support all of mpv's existing passthrough formats
* automatically test passthrough with exclusive mode and enable
exclusive if it succeeds, even if it was not explictly requested.
this obviates the need for --ao=wasapi,wasapi=exclusive
* if passthrough fails (such as the device doesn't support the
format), fallback to either exclusive pcm or shared mode depending
on what the user specified. Right now this isn't very useful as
it still fails due to the decoder path remainin stuck on spdif.
fixes#1742
Take advantage of the fact that list_devs is called with a
hotplug_inited ao. Also eliminate unnecessary nested function
abstraction of hotplug_(un)init and list_devs. However, keep list_devs
in ao_wasapi_utils.c since it uses the private functions get_device_id,
get_device_name and exposing these would require including headers for
IMMDevice in ao_wasapi_utils.h.
Create a second copy of the change_notify structure for the hotplug
ao. change_notify->is_hotplug distinguishes the hotplug version from
the regular one monitoring the currently playing ao. Also make the
change notification less verbose now that there might be two of them around.
More clearly separate the exclusive and shared mode format discovery.
Make the exclusive mode search more systematic in particular about
channel maps (i.e., use chmap_sel). Assume that the same sample format
/ sample rates work for all channels to narrow the search space.
The code actually uses blocking mode, so opening sound device in non-blocking
mode results in choppy sound. Also, inflating the buffer isn't necessary in
blocking mode, so the function may simply return without doing anything.
Instead of maintaining a private ring buffer, use the generic support
for audio APIs with pull callbacks (internally called AO pull API). This
also fixes latency calculations: instead of just returning the
ringbuffer status, the audio playback state is calculated better and
includes interpolation.
The main reason this wasn't done earlier was mid-stream format
switching. The pull API can now handle it (in a way) by destroying and
recreating the AO. This is a bit brutal, but quite simple. It's untested
in this new AO, though. Some details might not be right, like how ot
restores the old format when reloading.
This could mute a digital passthrough stream by writing zeros. All other
volume values did nothing.
The comment about MPlayer dying hasn't been true in mpv for quite a
while. It's even possible that it's fixed in upstream MPlayer. mpv will
print a scary error message when trying to change volume with spdif, and
continue normally.
If we really want to mute by writing zeros, we should do it in a
separate filter. But I'm not overly fascinated by this approach; is it
even guaranteed receivers will not be confused by a stream of zeros?
The main reason to remove this is that it's in the way of further
cleanups.
This echanges the two events hForceFeed/hFeedDone for hResume. This
like the last commit makes things more deterministic.
Importantly, the forcefeed is only done if there is not already a full
buffer yet to be played by the device. This should fix some of the
problems with exclusive mode.
This commit also removes the necessity to have a proxy to the
AudioClient object in the main thread.
fixes#1529
This makes things a bit more deterministic. It ensures that the audio
thread isn't doing anything between IAudioClient_Stop(),
IAudioClient_Reset() and setting the sample_count to 0.
Buffer overfilling on resume is still a problem in exclusive mode (see
next commit).
This commit adds notifications for hot plugging of devices. It also extends
the old behaviour of the `audio-out-detected-device` property which is now
backed by the hotplugging code. This allows clients to be notified when the
actual audio output device changes.
Maybe hotplugging should be supported for ao_coreaudio_exclusive too, but it's
device selection code is a bit fragile.
This requires jumping through multiple hoops on fire. Since the
PulseAudio API is virtually undocumented, I'm not sure if this is
correct either. We only react to sink events, and only to the NEW/REMOVE
events. CHANGE events are ignored, because PulseAudio fires them far too
often - even if the system is completely idle! If pa_sink_info.name can
change, we're in trouble. pa_sink_info.description is not so important,
but it'd also be a bit un-nice if it can change, and we don't update it.
The weird way how the actual AO and the hotplug context share the same
struct (ao) comes in handy here, although context_success_cb() still had
to be duplicated from success_cb() - the unused argument has a different
type.
Not very important for the command line player; but GUI applications
will want to know about this.
This only adds the internal API; support for specific audio outputs
comes later.
This reuses the ao struct as context for the hotplug event listener,
similar to how the "old" device listing API did. This is probably a bit
unclean and confusing. One argument got reusing it is that otherwise
rewriting parts of ao_pulse would be required (because the PulseAudio
API requires so damn much boilerplate). Another is that --ao-defaults is
applied to the hotplug dummy ao struct, which automatically applies such
defaults even to the hotplug context.
Notification works through the property observation mechanism in the
client API. The notification chain is a bit complicated: the AO notifies
the player, which in turn notifies the clients, which in turn will
actually retrieve the device list. (It still has the advantage that it's
slightly cleaner, since the AO stuff doesn't need to know about client
API issues.)
The weird handling of atomic flags in ao.c is because we still don't
require real atomics from the compiler. Otherwise we'd just use atomic
bitwise operations.
This is a small oversight. The client name (as set on command line
options or, more importantly, the client API) was not set when listing
devices e.g. via the "audio-device-list" property.
Might or might not fix#1578.
Also adjust the log level for an unrelated message.
Previously we let the user use the audio device ID, but this is not persistent
and can change when plugging in new devices. That of course made it quite
worthless for storing it as a user setting for GUIs, or for user scripts.
In theory getting the kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceUID can fail but it doesn't
on any of my devices, so I'm leaving the error reporting quite high and see if
someone complains.
The MSDN documentation for IsFormatSupported says a return code of
AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT means the function "succeeded but the
specified format is not supported in exclusive mode." This seems to
imply that the format is supported in shared mode, and that's what the
old code assumed, however try_format would incorrectly return success
with some drivers.
The remarks section of the documentation contradicts that assumption. It
says that in shared mode, if the audio engine does not support the
caller-specified format or any similar format, ppClosestMatch is set to
NULL and the function returns AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT. This is the
same as in exclusive mode, so treat AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT the
same regardless of opt_exclusive. In shared mode, the format selection
code will fall back to the mix format, which should always be supported.
Apparently, physically disconnecting the audio device (consider USB
audio) breaks the ALSA device handle forever. It will signal ENODEV.
Fortunately, it's easy for us to handle this, and we can just use
existing mechanisms that will make the playback core close and reopen
the AO. Whether the immediate reopening will actually succeeds really is
ALSA's problem, though.
In general, you need to check errno when using strtol(), but as far as I
know, strtol() won't reset errno on success. This has to be done
manually. The code could have failed sporadically if strtol() succeeded,
and errno was already set to one of the checked values.
(This strtol() still isn't fully error checked, but I don't know if it's
intentional, e.g. for parsing a numeric prefix only.)
Before this commit, ao_null was used as last fallback. This doesn't make
too much sense. Why would you decode audio just to discard it? Let audio
initialization fail instead. This also handles the weird but possible
corner-case that ao_null might fail initializing, in which case e.g.
ao_pcm could be autoselected. (This happened once, and had to be fixed
manually.)
This removes the slightly duplicated code for picking the required AO
driver if --audio-device forces one. Now --audio-device reuses the same
code as --ao for this.
As a consequence, ao_alloc_pb() and ao_create() can be merged into
ao_init(). Although the ao_init() argument list, which is already pretty
big, grows by one, it's better than having all these similar sounding
functions around.
Actually, I just wanted to do the change the following commit will do,
but I found this code was more of a mess than it had to be.
We must not try to remap channels with this. Whethever ALSA gives us,
and whatever we do with it, the result will probably be nonsense.
Untested, as I don't have the required hardware.
This used to be required to workaround PulseAudio bugs. Even later, when
the bugs were (partially?) fixed in PulseAudio, I had the feeling the
hacks gave better behavior. On the other hand, I couldn't actually
reproduce any bad behavior without the hacks lately. On top of this, it
seems our hacks sometimes perform much worse than PulseAudio's native
implementation (see #1430).
So disable the hacks by default, but still leave the code and the option
in case it still helps somewhere. Also, being able to blame PulseAudio's
code by using its native API is much easier than trying to debug our own
(mplayer2-derived) hacks.
* bits instead of bytes
* add valid_bits argument
* just pass in the mp_chmap and get the number and wavext channel map from that
* indicate valid bits in waveformat_to_str
* make appropriate accomodations in try_format
This message is printed when the audio device advertised a channel map,
but couldn't set it - which is probably a dmix bug (we'll never know,
ALSA doesn't take bug reports).
Print the requested map, so that the user (maybe) can make a connection
when seeing the message and the actually used channel map, which might
be less confusing. Or at least less useless.
There where 3 major errors in the previous code:
1) The kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelLayout selector returns a single
layout not an array.
2) The check for AudioChannelLayout allocation size was wrong (didn't account
for variable sized struct).
3) Didn't query the kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo selector
since I didn't know about it's existence.
All of these are fixed.
Might help with #1367
AudioChannelLayout uses a trailing variable sized array so we need to
query CoreAudio for the size of the struct it is going to need (or the
conversion of that particular layout would fail).
Fixes#1366
snd_pcm_prepare() was not always called, which could result in an
infinite loop.
Whether snd_pcm_prepare() was actually called depended on whether the
device was a hw device (or other characteristics; depending on
snd_pcm_hw_params_can_pause()), and required real suspend (annoying for
testing), so it was somewhat tricky to reproduce without knowing these
things.
When setting the ALSA channel map, we never actually set the map we got
from ALSA directly, but convert it to mpv's, and then back to ALSA's.
mpv and ALSA use different conventions for mono, and there is already an
exception for ALSA->mpv, but not mpv->ALSA.
This was only added recently (c1e97161) as an attempt to minimize the
bad impact of channel layout device aliases. But use of these was
removed in commit 49df0132. Now this code does pretty much nothing, and
shouldn't be needed anymore. It does something when using spdif, but
this fallback won't work anyway.
The "old" method (before the ALSA channel map API) used device aliases
like "surround51" to set the channel layout. The "interesting" part was
that these devices usually redirect to a hardware device. This means
playing stereo would lead you to the "default" device (dmix), while e.g.
5.1 to "surround51", which automatically takes care of the fact that
dmix can't do 5.1.
This is pretty much nonsense, though. It shouldn't depend on the damn
input media file whether the player is going to use shared access (dmix)
or exclusive access (direct hw device).
As a consequence, by default ao_alsa will do only what dmix can do. If
the user actually wants multichannel, he has to select a suitable hw
device with --audio-device. From there on, the correct speaker mapping
will be ensured via the channel mapping API.
The change is preparation for making multichannel output the default (as
far as supported by the audio output API). Of the common APIs, only ALSA
messes up beyond repair, so I feel like this change is needed.
On ancient alsa-lib versions, only stereo and mono can be played with
this branch.
dmix reports channel layouts it doesn't support. The rest of the
technical part of the story is in the code comment.
This seems to be the only reasonable way to fallback from trying to
initialize certain devices (like dmix) with multichannel audio. We could
probably add support for such padding channels to our audio chain or to
ao_alsa itself, but this would probably be much more work than this
commit.
What dmix does is probably a bug. I've tried to report it to ALSA. Thay
have a link on their website to a bug tracker, but it's a dead link, and
has been for years. I've posted to alsa-devel, but received no reply.
I'm thus assuming this absolutely retarded behavior is by design, and
nothing will happen to improve upon it.
I'm considering sending Lennart Poettering a "thank you" email, because
with PulseAudio, multichannel audio just works (although some other
things just don't work).
Whether we print it as warning or error doesn't really matter; we
continue anyway. (I don't actually know what the implications of running
in non-blocking mode are; for what's it worth, when I tested with
explicitly changing to non-blocking, it seemed to work fine anyway, so
don't change that part.)
ALSA returns "FL" as channel layout when trying to play mono. mpv and
libavresample don't like this; in particular, using libavresample to
convert stereo to "FL" fails.
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.
ALSA is crap. It's impossible to make multichannel playback just do the
right thing. dmix (the default on most distros) can do stereo only, and
will refuse to play multichannel. On the other hand, if you try like mpv
(and mplayer) to open a multichannel device (like "surround51" etc.),
this will actually open a hardware device, which will either fail if
dmix is active, or block out dmix if opening succeeds.
This commit falls back to "default" (i.e. dmix) if opening a
multichannel device fails, which is a tiny step towards the right
behavior. (Although fixing it fully is impossible.)
This could trigger an assertion when using ao_alsa or ao_coreaudio. The
code was simply assuming the number of channel maps was bounded
statically (which was true at first in both AOs).
Fix by using dynamic memory allocation. It needs to be explicitly
enabled by the AOs by setting a temp context, because otherwise the
memory couldn't be freed. (Or at least this seems to be the most elegant
solution.)
Fixes#1306.
Before it used whatever was in ao->format and changed the bits even
though this might have nothing to do with the actual WAVEFORMAT
negotiated with WASAPI.
For example, if the initial ao->format was a float and we had set the
WAVEFORMAT to s24, this would create a non-existent float24 format.
Worse, it might put an u16 into ao->format when WAVEFORMAT described s16.
WASAPI doesn't support unsigned at all as far as I can tell.
this involved inverting the logic of find_formats, enumerate_devies
and wasapi_fill_VistaBlob. The latter two were trivial as their return
values were not actually checked (to be fixed in a later
commit).
Before these definitions were incorrectly guarded by and #ifdef
but since they aren't macros, this would never be true so that
if they were ever added to mingw headers we would have problems.
rename KSDATAFORMAT constants with the same mp prefix for consistency.
also use DEFINE_GUID rather than defining the bare structure
Kevin Mitchell
wm4
Justas Lavišius
Marcin Kurczewski
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Stefano Pigozzi
Ben Boeckel
James Ross-Gowan