winealsa: improve sound quality for IDsDriverImpl

Robert Reif reif at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 4 07:55:49 CDT 2003


There is a bug in the mixer code that doesn't clear the primary
buffer to a proper silence value for 8 bit hardware buffers.
I have a patch that fixes this that I have been sitting on for months
now.  The problem is that there are locking problems in the
SetFormat code for primary buffers that cause it to crash immediately
for the tests I have written to exercise it.  I have added some more
locking to try to fix it and it is much better but it's not 100% yet.
It would probably be ok on a single processor system but still has
SMP issues.

Jerry Jenkins wrote:

> > sox -c1 -r44100 -sw /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav -tossdsp /dev/audio &&
> > wine winamp
> >
> > has the problem, but
> >
> > sox -c1 -r44100 -sb /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav -tossdsp /dev/audio &&
> > wine winamp
> >
> > is unbelievably good. How could it be? I should find out if it's
> > something is wrong with my system or something else.
> >
> Only one of my sound cards suffers from the problem when the format of
> primary buffer is 22050 samples per second, 8-bit stereo. The other is
> OK. It appears to be a big challenge for me. And I am a little curious
> about how many peoples would have such experience.
> I submitted a new patch, please test it.




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