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Audiosink design
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Requirements:
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- must operate chain based.
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Most simple playback pipelines will push audio from the decoders
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into the audio sink.
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- must operate getrange based
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Most professional audio applications will operate in a mode where
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the audio sink pulls samples from the pipeline. This is typically
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done in a callback from the audiosink requesting N samples. The
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callback is either scheduled from a thread or from an interrupt
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from the audio hardware device.
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- Exact sample accurate clocks.
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the audiosink must be able to provide a clock that is sample
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accurate even if samples are dropped or when discontinuities are
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found in the stream.
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- Exact timing of playback.
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The audiosink must be able to play samples at their exact times.
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- use DMA access when possible.
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When the hardware can do DMA we should use it. This should also
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work over bufferpools to avoid data copying to/from kernel space.
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Design:
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The design is based on a set of base classes and the concept of a
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ringbuffer of samples.
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+-----------+ - provide preroll, rendering, timing
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+ basesink + - caps nego
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+-----+-----+
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+-----V----------+ - manages ringbuffer
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+ baseaudiosink + - manages scheduling (push/pull)
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+-----+----------+ - manages clock/query/seek
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| - manages scheduling of samples in the ringbuffer
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| - manages caps parsing
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+-----V------+ - default ringbuffer implementation with a GThread
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+ audiosink + - subclasses provide open/read/close methods
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+------------+
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The ringbuffer is a contiguous piece of memory divided into segtotal
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pieces of segments. Each segment has segsize bytes.
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play position
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v
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+---+---+---+-------------------------------------+----------+
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+ 0 | 1 | 2 | .... | segtotal |
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+---+---+---+-------------------------------------+----------+
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<--->
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segsize bytes = N samples * bytes_per_sample.
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The ringbuffer has a play position, which is expressed in
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segments. The play position is where the device is currently reading
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samples from the buffer.
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The ringbuffer can be put to the PLAYING or STOPPED state.
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In the STOPPED state no samples are played to the device and the play
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pointer does not advance.
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In the PLAYING state samples are written to the device and the ringbuffer
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should call a configurable callback after each segment is written to the
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device. In this state the play pointer is advanced after each segment is
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written.
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A write operation to the ringbuffer will put new samples in the ringbuffer.
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If there is not enough space in the ringbuffer, the write operation will
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block. The playback of the buffer never stops, even if the buffer is
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empty. When the buffer is empty, silence is played by the device.
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The ringbuffer is implemented with lockfree atomic operations, especially
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on the reading side so that low-latency operations are possible.
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Whenever new samples are to be put into the ringbuffer, the position of the
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read pointer is taken. The required write position is taken and the diff
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is made between the required qnd actual position. If the defference is <0,
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the sample is too late. If the difference is bigger than segtotal, the
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writing part has to wait for the play pointer to advance.
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Scheduling:
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- chain based mode:
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In chain based mode, bytes are written into the ringbuffer. This operation
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will eventually block when the ringbuffer is filled.
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When no samples arrive in time, the ringbuffer will play silence. Each
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buffer that arrives will be placed into the ringbuffer at the correct
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times. This means that dropping samples or inserting silence is done
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automatically and very accurate and independend of the play pointer.
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In this mode, the ringbuffer is usually kept as full as possible. When
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using a small buffer (small segsize and segtotal), the latency for audio
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to start from the sink to when it is played can be kept low but at least
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one context switch has to be made between read and write.
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- getrange based mode
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In getrange based mode, the baseaudiosink will use the callback function
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of the ringbuffer to get a segsize samples from the peer element. These
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samples will then be placed in the ringbuffer at the next play position.
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It is assumed that the getrange function returns fast enough to fill the
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ringbuffer before the play pointer reaches the write pointer.
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In this mode, the ringbuffer is usually kept as empty as possible. There
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is no context switch needed between the elements that create the samples
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and the actual writing of the samples to the device.
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DMA mode:
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- Elements that can do DMA based access to the audio device have to subclass
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from the GstBaseAudioSink class and wrap the DMA ringbuffer in a subclass
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of GstRingBuffer.
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The ringbuffer subclass should trigger a callback after writing or playing
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each sample to the device. This callback can be triggered from a thread or
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from a signal from the audio device.
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Clocks:
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The GstBaseAudioSink class will use the ringbuffer to act as a clock provider.
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It can do this by using the play pointer and the delay to calculate the
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clock time.
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