On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:11:52PM +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: > On 22.11.2009 20:28, Jeff Goode wrote: > > > >I proposed that pcmbuf be rewritten to allow multiple input > >streams to be queued up independently and non-destructively mixed > >in real time. But there was some concern that this would cost > >memory and CPU time resources for little gain.
I'm completely for the rewrite. I think this would make the code more clearer. > Let me clarify my concerns once more: I'm not remotely concerned > with pcmbuf being rewritten for multiple streams or the like. That > would fix the strange situation that voice doesn't play with audio > paused. IMHO this is not a major problem. I my self do use voice, but I feel it is pretty easy to stop playback instead of pausing it. I prefer a solution that is not yet another hack to support simultaneous music/voice output and a solution that is modular, elegant and allows future extensions and interesting new features. Slightly increased CPU/memory usage is not a major concern to me. > I'm just skeptical about the "non-destructive" bit, which is (as > far as I understood) only there to have the voice play on in the > moment of stopping/pausing/resuming playback (it means that the > streams can be decoupled/restored again after being mixed > together). In my opinion it would be nice that the main audio stream would not receive any special treatment, see below. > I expect that (voice playing while changing playback state) to be a > very rare situation. We probably wouldn't need non-destructive at > all mixing if we ignored that rare case (the other imaginary > streams will probably only be active when audio is playing too, > unless someone wants fancy sound effects on voice(?)). Not necessarily on the voice, but perhaps on it as well. I could easily imagine sound effects related to the user interface and especially plugins. This would make plugins' audio usage considerably easier - now there are very few plugins that produce sound themselves (quite strange as we are dealing with plugins for DAP software). When talking about supporting simultaneous voice and music output, I think that the most annoying problem at the moment is that since voice is mixed with codec audio too early, the voice is almost useless while playing music since it cannot be interrupted, and a message cannot be replaced by another. -- Tappi-AUra
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