[Spice-devel] RFC on sound codec refactoring

[Jeremy White]

>> Instead of having to resample, can't we fix qemu (and spice headers) to use 48khz by default?
>
> Sure we can switch the default.  spice headers is enougth btw.  Just
> update the frequency there.  And bumb the minor version so spice-server
> can figure which frequency is used by qemu.
>
> You can still face the case that spice-server has to handle a old
> (not-yet rebuilt against new spice-headers) qemu binary which operates
> at 44.1 kHz.  So the 44.1 -> 48 resampling will be needed, even when is
> used for a (hopefully short) transition period only.

This is where we last left off, last June.

My current question is:  can we modify qemu to support a dynamic rate change?
In theory, it supports other devices that run at different frequencies,
so it should be theoretically possible.

If we can, that becomes a nice solution (although then we have the
trick of working out frame size to get through).

Cheers,

Jeremy