[PATCH 4/4] stream_intercaction: interact if a stream starts corked

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On 21.03.2016 15:11, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 15:53 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>> That aside, it seems to me that we shouldn't care about the current
>> cork state anyway. If the stream is corked when we send the cork
>> request, the application has two reasons to have the stream corked: the
>> first reason is whatever reason made the application cork the stream in
>> the first place, and the second reason is our cork request. When we
>> send the uncork request, only one of those reasons goes away. It's up
>> to the application to keep track of its corking reasons, and keep the
>> stream corked as long as there is any reason to do so.
> The cork state checking was added here:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=dda564f50b55340ff4bfbaa8d6d6fc6427f764f4
>
> Colin mentions paused Rhythmbox as an example use case where it would
> make sense to avoid sending the cork/uncork requests. In my opinion
> Rhythmbox shouldn't blindly unpause when it receives an uncork request
> from PulseAudio, but if it does, then it might not be a good idea to
> change the logic. This should be tested, but Rhythmbox is somehow
> totally broken on this machine (won't play anything), so I can't do
> that.
>
> -- 
> Tanu
I don't touch the cork/uncork/mute/unmute logic for existing streams
with that patch, only new streams are affected in so far that they are 
muted.


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