[vlc-devel] lock-free and malloc-free audio output

[Jakob Leben]

Hi all,

I've been testing the jack output with firewire jack backend. The
jackd+firewire itself is unusable without being run with realtime priority,
but in this case the server is much more demanding of clients and frequently
kicks VLC at small buffer sizes.

I believe the reason is usage of heap deallocation and mutex manipulation in
jack processing callback of vlc-jack plugin. This seems to be unavoidable
given the current aout API design.

Does somebody have a suggestion? gcc has some atomic operations built in, is
this a viable option?

Best regards

Jakob
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