From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: External PCM plugin SDK Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:29:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1107958458.13863.43.camel@pegasus> <1107959869.13863.62.camel@pegasus> <1107970036.13863.77.camel@pegasus> <1107971323.13863.90.camel@pegasus> <1108038565.15974.20.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <1108038565.15974.20.camel@pegasus> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:29:25 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > > > Problem now is that XMMS closes the device and re-opens it when changing > > > the track and even when switching to its next track. This is problematic > > > when using Bluetooth, because I need to keep the underlaying connection > > > alive. Any idea? > > > > Yeah, that's bad behavior of xmms. > > I'll try a hack later... > > Another way is that I implement somekind of keep alive mechanism inside > the plugin, but what I have seen so far is that it is directly unloaded > when it is no longer used. So the 1:1 mapping of open/close is not a > good thing and maybe there should be some keep alive and reset inside > the ALSA library to help here out. The delayed close in the plugin is of course good to have. My only concern is that the code would be complicated to handle races. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click