... so subclass can also rely upon never being bothered with some NULL buffer
it can't do any interesting with, or with any data before it received
any format configuration (and setup properly).
Whereas the previous default 0 was backwards compatible in that it lead
to erroring out immediately upon any error, elements that are really
ported and using the base class error macro can be assumed to intend to
improve behaviour rather than maintaining the old one. So, make it easy
on those and any future one and tolerate some errors by default, as intended.
Fixes#666579.
Add private replacements for deprecated functions such as
g_mutex_new(), g_mutex_free(), g_cond_new() etc., mostly
to avoid the deprecation warnings. We'll change these
over to the new API once we depend on glib >= 2.32.
Replace g_thread_create() with g_thread_try_new().
Now we can configure how much time to wait before deciding that a
discont has happened.
Also, adds getter and setter to allow derived implementations to set
this value upon construction.
Suggestions and several improvements by Havard Graff.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
A common problem for audio-playback is that the timestamps might not
be completely linear. This is specially common when doing streaming over
a network, where you can have jittery and/or bursty packettransmission,
which again will often be reflected on the buffertimestamps.
Now, the current implementation have a threshold that says how far the
buffertimestamp is allowed o drift from the ideal aligned time in the
ringbuffer. This was an instant reaction, and ment that if one buffer
arrived with a timestamp that would breach the drift-tolerance, a resync
would take place, and the result would be an audible gap for the
listener.
The annoying thing would be that in the case of a "timestamp-outlier",
you would first resync one way, say +100ms, and then, if the next
timestamp was "back on track", you would end up resyncing the other way
(-100ms) So in fact, when you had only one buffer with slightly off
timestamping, you would end up with *two* audible gaps. This is the
problem this patch addresses.
The way to "fix" this problem with the previous implementation, would
have been to increase the "drift-tolerance" to a value that was greater
than the largest timestamp-outlier one would normally expect. The big
problem with this approach, however, is that it will allow normal
operations with a huge offset timestamp vs running-time, which is
detrimental to lip-sync. If the drift-tolerance is set to 200ms, it
basically means that lip-sync can easily end up being off by that much.
This patch will basically start a timer when the first breach of
drift-tolerance is detected. If any following timestamp for the next n
nanoseconds gets "back on track" within the threshold, it has basically
eliminated the effect of an outlier, and the timer is stopped. If,
however, all timestamps within this time-limit are breaching the
threshold, we are probably facing a more permanent offset in the
timestamps, and a resync is allowed to happen.
So basically this patch offers something as rare as both higher
accuracy, it terms of allowing smaller drift-tolerances, as well as much
smoother, less glitchy playback!
Commit message and improvments by Havard Graff.
Fixes bug #640859.
