Many thanks Colin, this helped me. Best Regards, Himanshu <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello! 'Twas brillig, and Himanshu Chug at 06/06/11 17:22 did gyre and gimble: <div class="im">> I am going through module-cork-music-on-phone.c > > To understand the code , I need some information about these functions: </div>Yes, our internal developer docs don't really exist! :s I generally just read through the code to see when these call backs are called. It's not ideal, but it's pretty straight forward too. That said we really should get an effort to provide better internal developer docs (e.g. internal APIs within the server). <div class="im"> > 1. when each of these calls backs gets executed/called ? </div>> sink_input_put_cb Note that for all these questions you've asked about the function as called in module-cork-music-on-phone.c. In reality these functions can be called anything you like. The more important question is the HOOK that you're attaching them to for which you need to look at the pa__init() function in module-cork-music-on-phone.c PA_CORE_HOOK_SINK_INPUT_PUT So this hook is called when the sink input (playback stream) is physically created. There is an earlier hook that runs called PA_CORE_HOOK_SINK_INPUT_NEW which is run before the actual sink input object is created. > sink_input_unlink_cb PA_CORE_HOOK_SINK_INPUT_UNLINK This is called when a sink input disappears (e.g. the client application closes it's stream (user presses "Stop") or exits. <div class="im"> > sink_input_move_start_cb </div>PA_CORE_HOOK_SINK_INPUT_MOVE_START This is called when we start to move a sink input to a new sink. At this point the sink input is still attached the sink it is moving from. <div class="im"> > sink_input_move_finish_cb </div>PA_CORE_HOOK_SINK_INPUT_MOVE_FINISH This is called when we're done moving a sink input to a new sink and thus the sink input is now attached to the sink it was moved to. <div class="im"> > 2. these callbacks are internally calling to process() function (given > below) , I am interested to understand the last argument pa_bool_t > create of process(struct userdata *u, pa_sink_input *i, pa_bool_t create) > ,how to decide when to pass TRUE and FALSE to process? any reference > (if available) will be helpful. </div>You can work this out from the semantics of the descriptions above and the code in the process() function itself. Ultimately it's telling the process method that it should be corking or uncorking the streams. So when we've got a new sink input appearing on our sink (which happens in the PUT or MOVE_FINISH hooks), we need to look at (potentially) creating a cork on the other sink inputs on that sink, hence a TRUE value. But when a stream is disappearing (which can happen when it's moved off our sink to another one, or when it's just no longer present - i.e. UNLINK and MOVE_START hooks), we want to look at uncorking things we have previously corked, hence a FALSE value. > Thanks in advance Hope that helps. Col PS Documentation patches or similar efforts are as welcome as any other contribution! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">colin.guthr.ie</a> <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a> Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [<a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a>] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [<a href="http://www.mageia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org/</a>] PulseAudio Hacker [<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a>] Trac Hacker [<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>] _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>