[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Dynamic reconfiguration of sampling rate

[pl bossart]

> Thanks for the work - this was something I was hoping to look at at some
> point. I tried the patches and they do seem to work fine. Will continue
> using them for a bit and see if anything goes awry.

Thanks for the feedback.

> In my normal usage, there is a potential (solvable) problem with this
> approach, though. I use Rhythmbox and most of my songs are at 44100 Hz,
> but there are some at 48000 Hz. If I start playing one of the 48000 Hz
> songs, all subsequent streams will be upsampled to 48000 Hz till I pause
> for >5 seconds.
>
> As you suggest, this will become less of a problem if we decrease the
> idle time required before suspend, and IMO this enough to make this a
> non-blocker.

I wonder what happens if we set the timeout to zero for ALSA devices?

> Unless I missed something, the only assumption I see in the code is that
> one of the sample rates is a 4000 Hz multiple and the other is a 11025
> Hz multiple, so using, 88200 Hz with an alternate sample rate of 96000
> Hz should also just work.

yes. The idea was to keep SRC complexity under control.

> I see the sink being configured correctly for new sink inputs depending
> on the sample rate of the stream, but reconfiguration to update the
> sample rate of an existing stream on resume doesn't seem to be working.
> I'm testing by running Rhythmbox (not using the xfade backend), playing
> a 48000 Hz song, switching to a 44100 Hz song, pausing for long enough
> to suspend the card and then unpausing. As far as I can tell, the move
> callback isn't called on resume.

That's probably a bug. I didn't try corks/resumes, so it's likely broken.
Thanks again for testing!
-Pierre