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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 43/52] audio: add mixeng option (documentatio
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 43/52] audio: add mixeng option (documentation) |
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Wed, 9 Jan 2019 19:43:51 -0600 |
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On 12/23/18 2:52 PM, Kővágó, Zoltán wrote:
> This will allow us to disable mixeng when we use a decent backend.
>
> Disabling mixeng have a few advantages:
> * we no longer convert the audio output from one format to another, when
> the underlying audio system would just convert it to a third format.
> We no longer convert, only the underlying system, when needed.
> * the underlying system probably has better resampling and sample format
> converting methods anyway...
> * we may support formats that the mixeng currently does not support (S24
> or float samples, more than two channels)
> * when using an audio server (like pulseaudio) different sound card
> outputs will show up as separate streams, even if we use only one
> backend
>
> Disadvantages:
> * audio capturing no longer works (wavcapture, and vnc audio extension)
> * some backends only support a single playback stream or very picky
> about the audio format. In this case we can't disable mixeng.
>
> However mixeng is not removed, only made optional, so this shouldn't be
> a big concern.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <address@hidden>
> ---
> qapi/audio.json | 5 +++++
> qemu-options.hx | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/qapi/audio.json b/qapi/audio.json
> index 56d8ce439f..180bf207a8 100644
> --- a/qapi/audio.json
> +++ b/qapi/audio.json
> @@ -184,6 +184,10 @@
> #
> # General audio backend options that are used for both playback and
> recording.
> #
> +# @mixeng: #optional use QEMU's mixing engine to mix all streams inside QEMU.
The #optional tag is no longer necessary (the docs generator figures it
out from the '*mixeng' name below).
> +# When set to off, fixed-settings must be also off. Not every
> backend
> +# compatible with the off setting (default on)
Missing a '(since 4.0)' tag.
> +#
> # @fixed-settings: #optional use fixed settings for host input/output. When
> # off, frequency, channels and format must not be specified
> # (default on)
> @@ -207,6 +211,7 @@
> ##
> { 'struct': 'AudiodevPerDirectionOptions',
> 'data': {
> + '*mixeng': 'bool',
> '*fixed-settings': 'bool',
> '*frequency': 'int',
> '*channels': 'int',
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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