quartz: Fix converting between the media time and REFTIME

Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com
Wed Sep 14 10:07:52 CDT 2011


Hi,

I've never tried to understand quartz, but I'd like to know whether quartz
expects particular behaviour from the underlying winmm or mmdevapi
time/position/length functions.
For instance, quartz says its clocks are monotically increasing, whereas no
such requirement is documented (or at least known to me) for the audio stream
positions. This may seem obvious, but then I came across some mailing list where
people reported a sudden backward change in stream position when pluggin/unplugging
earphones or the like.
Is quartz very decoupled from the underlying audio information?
Who stops the clock (if at all) while the stream is paused?

BTW, in theory I have the tools to easily test quartz, using my interactive MCI shell
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20232#c10

However every time I tried, I found mciqtz too underpowered to be able
to reasonably use it. :-(

Using the MCI to use mciqtz (which in turn uses quartz.dll) goes as follows:
wine wintest.exe mcishell

open foo.wav alias w type mpegvideo
status w length
play w from 0 notify wait
close w
# lots of other commands are available

open foo.avi alias a type mpegvideo
window a state show
status a length
play a from 0
close a

Omit the "type mpegvideo" and mciwave or mciavi will be used instead of mciqtz32.dll

Regards,
 Jörg Höhle


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