Thanks to "Sander van Dijk" <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com>, we now have much
better SDL sound support.
Here's the promised cleaned up version of the "double buffer" approach
patch for "snd_sdl.c". I've taken some more time to re-read and test
it this time, and it seems to behave well. All memory that is used by
both the main thread and the SDL audio thread is prefixed with "shm_",
and locking is used to ensure that only one thread accesses it at the
same time.
If the default sound device does not support mmap access, retry with
plughw. However, assume the user knows best and do not retry if snd_device
has been set to anything, including "default".
QF alsa support now works out of the box with pulseaudio.
Due to quake's original sound engine using a push model, the actual place
to which the sound data should be written is not necessarily where the
"hardware" dma cursor is, but rather where the last write finished off.
Thus, the correct output location is indicated by snd_paintedtime rather
than snd_shm->framepos.
Unfortuanately, I can't test this properly as I don't have any such
hardware, but as the code is mosly an edited copy of the interleaved code,
any errors should be easy to fix.
When jackd gets an unhandled xrun, it stops all processing but neglects to
tell the client about it. Thus, add a bit of a watchdog function to
s_update() and assume the client thread is dead if there's no sign of life
after one second. No more hanging on exit.
Wav file were not read correctly when encoutering most chunk type beside the ones used by QuakeForge.
This patch will fix the riff loader code so that unused but defined chunk are skipped. Most wav files should now be loaded correctly fixing some silent sound effect.
Also fixed a typo in wav loader and reordered wav validity check so that format is checked first. The data chunk could be inexistant on some weird format and so an invalid format is a more helpful error text.
! Fix: Skip unsupported chunk in riff loader instead of rejecting riff file.
! Fix: typo in Microsoft name.
! Fix: ordering of wav validity to enable more helpful error text.
This happens when qf fails to connect to jackd (possibly other times).
There is probably a better solution to the problem, but not opening a
stream when the sample rate is reported as 0 definitely fixes the inifinite
recursion in read_samples().