Apparently some systems see "hw:", some see "default:" and some see
"sysdefault:" (and maybe others!). My workstation sees both "hw:" and
"sysdefault:" ...
Try to find a prefix we like and prioritize the prefixes we (think) we want
most. If everything else fails, if there's a "default" (not a prefix) device
name, list that by itself so the user gets _something_ here.
If we can't find a prefix we like _and_ there's no "default" device, report
no hardware found at all.
Simon Sandstr?m
As stated in Summary. The switch statement will execute the default case and set a SDL error message: "SDL_MixAudio(): unknown audio format".
There are atleast two more problems here:
1. SDL_MixAudioFormat does not notify the user that an error has occured and that a SDL error message was set. It took me awhile to understand why I couldn't mix down the volume on my AUDIO_U16LSB formatted audio stream.. until I started digging in the SDL source code.
2. The error message is incorrect, it should read: "SDL_MixAudioFormat(): unknown audio format".
This tends to be a frequent spot where drivers hang, and the waits were
often unreliable in any case.
Instead, our audio thread now alerts the driver that we're done streaming audio
(which currently XAudio2 uses to alert the system not to warn about the
impending underflow) and then SDL_Delay()'s for a duration that's reasonable
to drain the DMA buffers before closing the device.
This tries to make SDL robust against device drivers that have hung up,
apps don't freeze in catastrophic (but not necessarily uncommon) conditions.
Now we detach the audio thread and let it clean up and don't care if it
never actually runs to completion.
James Zipperer
The problem I was seeing was that the the ALSA hotplug thread would call SDL_RemoveAudioDevice, but my application code was not seeing an SDL_AUDIODEVICEREMOVED event to go along with it. To fix it, I added some code into SDL_RemoveAudioDevice to call SDL_OpenedAudioDeviceDisconnected on the corresponding open audio device. There didn't appear to be a way to cross reference the handle that SDL_RemoveAudioDevice gets and the SDL_AudioDevice pointer that SDL_OpenedAudioDeviceDisconnected needs, so I ended up adding a void *handle field to struct SDL_AudioDevice so that I could do the cross reference.
Is there some other way beside adding a void *handle field to the struct to get the proper information for SDL_OpenedAudioDeviceDisconnected?
James Zipperer
Close the audio device before waiting for the audio thread to complete, which fixes a situation where the audio thread never completes
Add an additional check in the audio thread to see if the device is enabled and bail out if the device is no longer enabled
The Apple TV remote is currently exposed as a joystick with its touch surface treated as two axes. Key presses are also generated when its buttons and touch surface are used.
A new hint has been added to help deal with deciding whether to background the app when the remote's menu button is pressed: SDL_HINT_APPLE_TV_CONTROLLER_UI_EVENTS.
AudioQueues are available in Mac OS X 10.5 and later (and iOS 2.0 and later).
Their API is much more clear (and if you don't mind the threading tapdance
to get its own CFRunLoop) much easier to use in general for our purposes.
As an added benefit: they seemlessly deal with format conversion in ways
AudioUnits don't: for example, my MacBook Pro's built-in microphone won't
capture at 8000Hz and the AudioUnit version wouldn't resample to hide this
fact; the AudioQueue version, however, can handle this.
Moved this code from winmm into core so both can use it.
DirectSound (at least on Win10) also returns truncated device names, even
though it's handed in as a string pointer and not a static-sized buffer. :/
Sam Lantinga
Ryan C. Gordon
Philipp Wiesemann
Alex Szpakowski
Alon Zakai