Now that the mixing buffer size no longer adds to playback
latency, fix the samples vs. frames mix-up in the mixing buffer
size calculation. This change will go largely unnoticed as long
as the user doesn't use a buffer-size smaller than timer-period.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20220301191311.26695-14-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Add the buffer_get_free pcm_ops function to reduce the effective
playback buffer size. All intermediate audio playback buffers
become temporary buffers.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20220301191311.26695-11-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
This is a patch to improve the pulseaudio playback experience.
Asking pulseaudio for a playback latency of 15ms is quite
demanding. Increase this to 46ms. The total playback latency
now is 31ms larger. One of the next patches will reduce the
total playback latency again by more than 46ms.
Here is a quote from the PulseAudio Latency Control
documentation: 'For the sake of (...) drop-out safety always
make sure to pick the highest latency possible that fulfills
your needs.'
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20220301191311.26695-5-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Move the code to generate the pa_context_new() application name
argument to a function in audio/audio.c. The new function
audio_application_name() will also be used in the jackaudio
backend.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20210517194604.2545-3-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
In current code there are no calls to pa_stream_get_latency()
or pa_stream_get_time() to receive latency or time information.
Remove the flags PA_STREAM_INTERPOLATE_TIMING and
PA_STREAM_AUTO_TIMING_UPDATE which instruct PulseAudio to
calculate this information in regular intervals.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20210517194604.2545-2-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Tell PulseAudio to send recorded audio data in smaller chunks
than timer_period, so there's a good chance that qemu can read
recorded audio data every time it looks for new data.
PulseAudio tries to send buffer updates at a fragsize / 2 rate.
With fragsize = timer_period / 2 * 3 the update rate is 75% of
timer_period. The lower limit for the recording buffer size
maxlength is fragsize * 2.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-19-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Currently with the playback buffer attribute minreq = -1 and flag
PA_STREAM_EARLY_REQUESTS PulseAudio uses minreq = tlength / 4.
To improve audio playback with larger PulseAudio server side
buffers, limit minreq to a maximum of 75% of audio timer_rate.
That way there is a good chance qemu receives a stream buffer
size update before it tries to write data to the playback stream.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-18-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
The audio buffer size in audio/paaudio.c is typically larger
than expected. Just comment the bugs in qpa_init_in() and
qpa_init_out() for now. Fixing these bugs may break glitch free
audio playback with fine tuned user audio settings.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-17-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Don't call pa_stream_writable_size() in qpa_get_buffer_out()
before the playback stream is ready. This prevents a lot of the
following pulseaudio error messages.
pulseaudio: pa_stream_writable_size failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
To reproduce start qemu with
-parallel none -device gus,audiodev=audio0 -audiodev pa,id=audio0
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-15-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Don't call pa_stream_writable_size() in qpa_write() before the
playback stream is ready. This prevents a lot of the following
pulseaudio error messages.
pulseaudio: pa_stream_writable_size failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
To reproduce start qemu with
-parallel none -device gus,audiodev=audio0
-audiodev pa,id=audio0,out.mixing-engine=off
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-14-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
The pulseaudio backend currently converts, clips and copies audio
playback samples in the mixing-engine sample buffer multiple
times.
In qpa_get_buffer_out() the function pa_stream_begin_write()
returns a rather large buffer and this allows audio_pcm_hw_run_out()
in audio/audio.c to copy all samples in the mixing-engine buffer
to the pulse audio buffer. Immediately after copying, qpa_write()
notices with a call to pa_stream_writable_size() that pulse audio
only needs a smaller part of the copied samples and ignores the
rest. This copy and ignore process happens several times for each
audio sample.
To fix this behaviour, call pa_stream_writable_size() in
qpa_get_buffer_out() to limit the number of samples
audio_pcm_hw_run_out() will convert. With this change the
pulseaudio pcm_ops functions put_buffer_out and write are no
longer identical and a separate qpa_put_buffer_out is needed.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-13-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
This adds proper support for float samples in mixeng by adding a new
audio format for it.
Limitations: only native endianness is supported. None of the virtual
sound cards support float samples (it looks like most of them only
support 8 and 16 bit, only hda supports 32 bit), it is only used for the
audio backends (i.e. host side).
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 8a8b0b5698401b78d3c4c8ec90aef83b95babb06.1580672076.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
The unused variables were last used before commit 49ddd7e122
"paaudio: port to the new audio backend api".
Fixes: 49ddd7e122
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-Id: <20200123074943.6699-3-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Don't call pa_stream_peek before the recording stream is ready.
Information to reproduce the problem.
Start and stop Audacity in the guest several times because the
problem is racy.
libvirt log file:
-audiodev pa,id=audio0,server=localhost,out.latency=30000,
out.mixing-engine=off,in.mixing-engine=off \
-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,
resourcecontrol=deny \
-msg timestamp=on
: Domain id=4 is tainted: custom-argv
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0)
audio: Device pcspk: audiodev default parameter is deprecated,
please specify audiodev=audio0
audio: Device hda: audiodev default parameter is deprecated,
please specify audiodev=audio0
pulseaudio: pa_stream_peek failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
pulseaudio: pa_stream_peek failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 20200104091122.13971-5-vr_qemu@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
There is no guarantee a single call to pa_stream_peek every
timer_period microseconds can read a recording stream faster
than the data gets produced at the source. Let qpa_read try to
drain the recording stream.
To reproduce the problem:
Start qemu with -audiodev pa,id=audio0,in.mixing-engine=off
On the host connect the qemu recording stream to the monitor of
a hardware output device. While the problem can also be seen
with a hardware input device, it's obvious with the monitor of
a hardware output device.
In the guest start audio recording with audacity and notice the
slow recording data rate.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 20200104091122.13971-4-vr_qemu@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Every call to pa_stream_peek which returns a data length > 0
should have a corresponding pa_stream_drop. A call to qpa_read
does not necessarily call pa_stream_drop immediately after a
call to pa_stream_peek. Test in qpa_fini_in if a last
pa_stream_drop is needed.
This prevents following messages in the libvirt log file after
a recording stream gets closed and a new one opened.
pulseaudio: pa_stream_drop failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
pulseaudio: pa_stream_drop failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Bad state
To reproduce start qemu with
-audiodev pa,id=audio0,in.mixing-engine=off
and in the guest start and stop Audacity several times.
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 20200104091122.13971-3-vr_qemu@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
This can be used to identify stream in tools like pavucontrol when one
creates multiple -audiodevs or runs multiple qemu instances.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 2d6e337c474ac84172d0809e6959c26b21d48120.1568157545.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Connection name was previously erroneously set to the server socket
path, while connection names were simply "qemu". After this patch, the
connection name will be the vm name (falling back to "qemu" if not
specified), while stream names will be the audiodev's id.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: 3d139426031a400a68d440608ba5e43f0e116cd8.1568157545.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
This way we no longer need vararg functions, improving compile time
error detection. Also now it's possible to check actually what commands
are supported, without needing to manually update ctl_caps.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: 2b08b3773569c5be055d0a0fb2f29ff64e79f0f4.1568927990.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
They just called audio_pcm_sw_read/write anyway, so it makes no sense
to have them too. (The noaudio's read is the only exception, but it
should work with the generic code too.)
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: 92ddc98133bc4b687c6e4608b9321e7b64c0e496.1566168923.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Pulseaudio normally assumes that when the server wants it, the client
can generate the audio samples and send it right away. Unfortunately
this is not the case with QEMU -- it's up to the emulated system when
does it generate the samples. Buffering the samples and sending them
from a background thread is just a workaround, that doesn't work too
well. Instead enable pa's compatibility support and let pa worry about
the details.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: aa4e3613122ccbaa62b1feb4e427260731f7477c.1566168923.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
There's already a MIN and MAX macro in include/qemu/osdep.h, use them
instead.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: 303222477df6f7373217e0df768635fab5855745.1566168923.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Unless we disable stream moving, pulseaudio can easily move the stream
on connect, effectively ignoring the source/sink specified by the user.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: c245929463e6e46a48b2875a150815e2ccba11b4.1566168923.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Have a pool of refcounted connections per server, so if the user creates
multiple audiodevs to the same pa server, it will use a single connection. (It
will still create different streams, so the user can manage those streams
separately in pulseaudio.)
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: d43218f327c62cdbd16ea0c922612025fbc4805e.1566168923.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Several people have reported to have bag microphone lag with the PA
backend. While I cannot reproduce the problem here, it seems that their
PA somehow decides to buffer the microphone input for way too long,
causing this delay. This patch sets an upper limit to the amount of
data PA should hold. This fixes the problem reliably on their side,
while having no adverse effects on mine.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190615153852.99040-1-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
The current code does not specify the metrics of the buffers for the
input device. This makes PulseAudio choose very bad defaults, which
causes input to be unusable: Audio put in gets out 30 seconds later.
This patch fixes that and makes the latency configurable as well.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190315084653.120020-4-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
The latency of a connection to the PulseAudio server is determined by
the tlength parameter. This was hardcoded to 10ms, which is a bit too
tight on my machine, causing audio on host and guest to malfunction.
A setting of 15ms works fine here. To allow tweaking, I also made the
setting configurable via the new -audiodev config. This allows to squeeze out better timings in scenarios where the emulation allows it.
I also removed setting of the minreq parameter to (seemingly arbitrary) half the latency, since it showed worse audio quality during my tests. Allowing PulseAudio to request smaller chunks helped.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190315084653.120020-3-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Audiodev configuration allows to set the length of the buffered data.
The setting was ignored and a constant value used instead.
This patch makes the code apply the setting properly, and uses the
previous default if nothing is supplied.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190315084653.120020-2-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Audio drivers now get an Audiodev * as config paramters, instead of the
global audio_option structs. There is some code in audio/audio_legacy.c
that converts the old environment variables to audiodev options (this
way backends do not have to worry about legacy options). It also
contains a replacement of -audio-help, which prints out the equivalent
-audiodev based config of the currently specified environment variables.
Note that backends are not updated and still rely on environment
variables.
Also note that (due to moving try-poll from global to backend specific
option) currently ALSA and OSS will always try poll mode, regardless of
environment variables or -audiodev options.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Message-id: e99a7cbdac0d13512743880660b2032024703e4c.1552083282.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
I had to include an enum for audio sampling formats into qapi, but that
meant duplicating the audfmt_e enum. This patch replaces audfmt_e and
associated values with the qapi generated AudioFormat enum.
This patch is mostly a search-and-replace, except for switches where the
qapi generated AUDIO_FORMAT_MAX caused problems.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-id: 01251b2758a1679c66842120b77c0fb46d7d0eaf.1552083282.git.DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Check whenever the pulseaudio daemon pidfile is present before trying to
initialize the pulseaudio backend. Just return NULL if that is not the
case, so qemu will check the next backend in line.
In case the user explicitly configured a non-default pulseaudio server
skip the check.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190124112055.547-5-kraxel@redhat.com
The rate of pulseaudio absorbing the audio stream is used to control the
the rate of the guests audio stream. When the emulated hardware uses
small chunks (like intel-hda does) we need small chunks on the audio
backend side too, otherwise that feedback loop doesn't work very well.
Cc: Max Ehrlich <maxehr@umiacs.umd.edu>
Cc: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795527
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20181109142032.1628-1-kraxel@redhat.com
Add registry for audio drivers, using the existing audio_driver struct.
Make all drivers register themself. The old list of audio_driver struct
pointers is now a list of audio driver names, specifying the priority
(aka probe order) in case no driver is explicitly asked for.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180306074053.22856-2-kraxel@redhat.com
Apparently we don't use __MSC_VER as a compiler anymore and we always
require a C99 compiler (which means we always have __func__) so we don't
need a special AUDIO_FUNC macro. We can just replace AUDIO_FUNC with
__func__ instead.
Checkpatch failures were manually fixed.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20180203084315.20497-2-armbru@redhat.com>
The point of writing a macro embedded in a 'do { ... } while (0)'
loop (particularly if the macro has multiple statements or would
otherwise end with an 'if' statement) is so that the macro can be
used as a drop-in statement with the caller supplying the
trailing ';'. Although our coding style frowns on brace-less 'if':
if (cond)
statement;
else
something else;
that is the classic case where failure to use do/while(0) wrapping
would cause the 'else' to pair with any embedded 'if' in the macro
rather than the intended outer 'if'. But conversely, if the macro
includes an embedded ';', then the same brace-less coding style
would now have two statements, making the 'else' a syntax error
rather than pairing with the outer 'if'. Thus, even though our
coding style with required braces is not impacted, ending a macro
with ';' makes our code harder to port to projects that use
brace-less styles.
The change should have no semantic impact. I was not able to
fully compile-test all of the changes (as some of them are
examples of the ugly bit-rotting debug print statements that are
completely elided by default, and I didn't want to recompile
with the necessary -D witnesses - cleaning those up is left as a
bite-sized task for another day); I did, however, audit that for
all files touched, all callers of the changed macros DID supply
a trailing ';' at the callsite, and did not appear to be used
as part of a brace-less conditional.
Found mechanically via: $ git grep -B1 'while (0);' | grep -A1 \\\\
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20171201232433.25193-7-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Since pulseaudio 1.0 it's possible to set the individual stream volume
rather than setting the device volume. With this, setting hardware mixer
of a emulated sound card doesn't mess up the volume configuration of the
host.
A side effect is that this limits compatible pulseaudio version to 1.0
which was released on 2011-09-27.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: 78853815be2069971b89b3a2e3181837064dd8f3.1462962512.git.pkrempa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Clean up includes so that osdep.h is included first and headers
which it implies are not included manually.
This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1453138432-8324-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
qpa_audio_init did not clean up resources properly if the initialization
failed. This hopefully fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <DirtY.iCE.hu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
