[vlc-devel] [PATCH] aout: modify module API: make modules non-blocking
Rémi Denis-Courmont
remi at remlab.net
Tue Mar 12 17:30:10 CET 2019
Le tiistaina 12. maaliskuuta 2019, 12.53.23 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> I reject myself this API changes since It will work only with PulseAudio,
Ah? You can implement this in ALSA and OSS at least.
> that has a way to report more_data and drain from its own thread.
If there are no ways to report write_room/underflow then you are screwed.
Having a thread has nothing to do with it.
> The new
> API need to handle other main modules too.
I fail to see the problem with the proposal.
> I think the best way to pace the
> play() from other modules is to return a vlc_tick_t from this function,
> that will tell the core to wait for a given time.
That will not work with PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS. None of them tell you how
long to wait before writing again.
Trying that approach is a complete waste of your time.
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