[Bug 787683] alsamidisrc behavior with non-live sinks

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787683

--- Comment #12 from Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> ---
Created attachment 361230
  --> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=361230&action=edit
alsamidisrc: Improve buffer timestamping

Make buffer timestamps more accurate and, more importantly, actually
representative of the MIDI events timing.

Previously, buffers were only sent with timetamps aligned at a 10ms
boundary which was just wrong, now the buffer timestamp represents the
real time of the MIDI event.

Conveniently, the ALSA sequencer API supports scheduling events in the
future so the sequencer infrastructure can be used to have the tick
delivered at the right time, avoiding any custom scheduling mechanism.

The ticks scheduling starts on the first transition to PLAYING, and the
delay is also calculated when the pipeline goes into PLAYING.

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