I never liked "cache" as a name because it said where the sound was
stored rather than how it was loaded/played, but "stream" is ok, since
that's pretty much spot on. I'm not sure "block" is the best, but it at
least makes sense because the sounds are loaded as a single block (as
opposed to being streamed). An now, neither use the cache system.
SYS_dev is a holdover from when we had only the one flag and is not
meant to be used for tests (I seem to remember mentioning an audit was
necessary, but obviously forgotten). One step at a time, I guess :)
This improves the locality of reference when mixing and removes the
proxy sfx for streamed sounds.
The buffer for streamed sounds is allocated when the stream is opened
(since streamed sounds can't share buffers), and freed when the stream
is closed.
For block sounds, the buffer is reference counted (with the sfx holding
one reference, so currently block buffers never get freed), with their
reference count getting incremented on open and decremented on close.
That the reference counts get to 1 has been confirmed, so all that
should be needed is proper destruction of the sfx instances.
Still need to sort out just why channels leak across level changes.
Sounds no longer use the cache, which is good for multi-threaded, but a
pain for memory management: the buffers are shared between channels that
play back the sounds, but when the sounds were cached, they were
automagically (thus problematically) freed when the space was needed.
That no longer happens, so they leak. I think the solution is to use
reference counting and retain/release in sfx->open() and sfx->close().
Still "some" more to go: a pile to do with transforms and temporary
entities, and a nasty one with host_cbuf. There's also all the static
block-alloc lists :/
The sounds are down-mixed to 2 channels (qf does not (yet) support more than
2 channel output), but this allows pretty much anything to be used for a
source of music. Only 5.1 (6 channel), stereo and mono have been tested, but
the others should work (any issues would be mis-interpretation/implementation
of the channel layout).
the resampler is being badly abused for streams, and it's not yet properly
autoconfiscated, but things are working. Better yet, at the correct pitch and
speed.
Rather than using an ifdef around the entire code, get autoconf to do the work
for us. For one thing, this allows doxygen to produce decent docs. It also
makes for less compalation when building without support for various formats.
