mythmusic bufferring is too aggressive

[Mark Spieth]

mythmusic currently buffers until the output buffers are full causing delays when any play parameters are changed.

this has been in my set of patches for ages.

patch attached

[stuartm]

Thanks Mark, I've been meaning to fix this one lately. Is reducing the buffering the right solution? Although I was yet to look at the problem, I was thinking of just dumping the buffer as we would on a normal mid-track change and just fix the problem of not being able to make that switch after decoding was complete.

[Mark Spieth]

in audiooutputbase I previously had a 2 sec limit but this impacted video playback as some videos have a reasonable delay and if you also use sync adjust this can cause it not to work.

so the solution I came up with is to manage the amount buffered in the data feeder of which there are 4 in mm. this means when you change timestretch in mm it acts immediately (0.5 sec) instead of after 10-15 secs which was pretty crap.

dumping the buffer on stop/track change is probably a good idea but it seems to work fine anyway. just that the track change occurred 10-15 secs before you hear it. I wouldnt worry about this with the limit in place.

[anonymous]

Updated patch to take into account files that have since been removed from trunk. Untested.

[stuartm]

(In [20820]) Limit the amount of audio buffering in mythmusic to 500ms to improve seeking and track change response times. I've also increased the usleep in the flush loop to 5ms with no ill effect and it could probably go higher, but report any problems. Original patch by Mark Speith, Closes #5761