Thanks for your answers! >> - is it OK to open a stream as soon as the application starts, even if >> no sound will be eventually played? Or should I open a stream only >> when a song is requested to be played and close it once it has >> finished? > >Can you enforce the same audio format throughout the application >lifetime? It seems saner to keep the PA mainloop and the PA context for >the whole application, but create a new stream only when you start >playback. You can do either way though. Yes, actually I use ffmpeg under the hood to decode the files to a user defined format (defaulting to s16le / 44.1khz / stereo) Ok, I will try to open/close the stream when the user start/stop the player. >> - is it OK to use a single stream for several songs or is it better to >> use separate streams, one for each song? > >You can of course do that. If you implement cross-fading, it's even hard >to avoid. Remember to update the stream meta-data though. Ok! Keeping the same stream makes the usage of pa_stream_get_time more complicated (but it's already complicated since the user can scroll within the songs). Could you please elaborate more on meta data? I don't find any reference of this in the doc. _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
