Re: [fluid-dev] PulseAudio driver

[josh]

Quoting David Henningsson <address@hidden>:

> address@hidden wrote:
> > Quoting David Henningsson <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've thinking about a change in the PulseAudio driver, changing
> > > bufattr.maxlength from period_bytes to -1. What this means is basically:
> > > if PulseAudio finds out that the specified buffer length (i e latency)
> > > can't be satisfied (usually it tries and receives a drop-out), it will
> > > use a bigger latency. The current behavior is to make drop-outs instead.
> > >
> > > This is somewhat a matter of taste with pros and cons in both camps, but
> > > I'm thinking that since PulseAudio isn't low-latency as in good live
> > > real-time playing anyway, the PulseAudio driver will probably be used
> > > more when FluidSynth is just a MIDI file player, and in that case,
> > > bigger latency is probably preferable to drop-outs.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > // David
> >
> > What about adding a boolean setting, something like
> > audio.pulseaudio.auto-latency and set it to a default of TRUE or
> > something like that?  I'd be fine with what you suggested also though.
>
> Good idea, I'll do that. In the same spirit I've also committed a
> setting for the pulseaudio media role, which defaults to "music" (music
> player). We could also consider a FluidSynth icon, which will be shown
> in the gnome volume control (and pavucontrol).
>
> // David

Sounds good.  Seems like FluidSynth could use some graphic logo work  
:)  I've made a couple different logos over the years, but I'm still  
not quite satisfied with them.  Maybe someone else will beat me to it,  
as far as creating a new one.

Josh