On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:46:04AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This closes the letter of bug 341, but IMO not the spirit -- how should
> we handle a dead soundserver? Die gracefully immediately? On startup,
> I think this should be the case. Anyway, that's easy to fix later.
Argh, make that bug #340. Silly typo.
But regarding bug 341 -- It supopsedly crashes when there are too many
active voices -- which doesn't make much sense to me since this code is
single-threaded (and shouldn't trigger race conditions). I'm
really not sure why it would crash. And ItWorksForMe(tm).
There are two causes for the driver to run out of voices:
1) Buggy songs that don't send proper note-offs (eg HQ.99)
- Every "out of voices" message directly follows an improper note-off.
- It may still be a driver bug. I'm pouring over the MIDI data. :)
2) We don't have a true voice allocation/priority scheme in place.
- Which would sorta solve (1) anyway.
I may try to further mangle the AdlibEmu driver to get a full 16 voices,
which may render both problems moot in some cases. But who knows.
I'd prefer to not bother with true voice allocation, because it only
affects the adlib -- real midi devices do this for us, and if you're
using a GM softsynth, they have obscene numbers of channels.
So if we never program a real adlib, I say screw it. :)
It also turns out that the cc 0x7b (allstop) isn't handled, but it's not
being called anyway. I just implemented it for the adlibemu driver;
all others are true midi and handle it implicitly.
BTW, bug #302 should have been fixed long ago -- can we verify this?
- Pizza
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