[pulseaudio-discuss] making a custom mainloop robust to clock changes

[Sébastien Barthélémy]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 21:56, Sébastien Barthélémy wrote:
> > In some cases our application fails to get the stream latency: our
> > callback, which was set using pa_stream_update_timing_info(), is called
> > (in
> > stream_get_timing_info_callback  [1]) with o->stream->timing_info_valid
> > ==
> > FALSE.
> >
> > My guess is that, in the test a bit above ([2]). we have
> > command==PA_COMMAND_TIMEOUT.
> >
> > Is there any way to test that hypothesis?
>
> The callback given to pa_stream_update_timing_info() has type
> pa_context_success_cb_t, which has the "success" argument. If "success"
> is false, you can get the error code with pa_context_errno(). If the
> operation failed due to a timeout, the error code should be
> PA_ERR_TIMEOUT.
>

Thank you, I did the change, and so far only got timeouts.
Good news!

I don't know (or remember) the reason. I would guess that it has to do
> with maintaining a stable public API and avoiding unnecessary complexity
> in the API. However, if there's need for enabling the rtclock stuff for
> custom mainloops, I'd expect there to be some way to implement that
> without breaking backwards compatibility.
>

Ok, I may give it a try (not sur I'll find the time).

Thank you for your help so far!
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