Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune - endianness

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 05/13/12 01:49, Philippe Roussel wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I had this problem with the AO backend : -openDevice is not called for
> every song, even when the playback rate or others parameters change,
> only -prepareDeviceWithChannels:andRate:withEndianness: is called.
>
> But for AO and apparently ALSA, some parameters are passed when opening
> the device, that's why in AO's -prepareDeviceWithChannels I close and
> reopen the device. I think the same thing should be done with ALSA.
>
> Ultimately the nice thing to do would be to reorganise the Player to
> close and reopen the device when some parameter changes but the code in
> there is kind of hairy and I didn't want to touch it.
>
> I'll try to test cvs head tomorrow.
You might be looking in the right direction. I obviously added a check 
where rate and channles change, also endianness change and should reinit 
the device, but as you write, some stuff is set only on open. Perhaps it 
can be set later, I need to investigate that.

Riccardo