WINEALSA: comment on unexpected shrinking of mmap-buffer (resend)
Robert Reif
reif at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 15 17:51:40 CDT 2005
Alex Villacís Lasso wrote:
> The first test that fails with the ALSA driver is the so-called
> "reference" tone, which, as far as I could see, is played with a
> primary buffer, and no secondary buffer. The reference tone uses the
> hardware position directly, which wraps around at a buffer size that
> changes unexpectedly when switching playback formats. I have prepared
> a patch that "fixes" this, by re-querying the buffer size in the case
> of a primary buffer, and displaying a warning if it detects a buffer
> size change. However, I don't know if the buffer size is supposed to
> remain constant across buffer format changes. If it does, then the
> patch would need to be modified to mark this as a TODO.
Fix the wine ALSA driver rather than the test unless you can prove that
the test fails on Windows.
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