ao_pulse, core: make pulse thread wake up core for more data

For ao_pulse, the current latency is not a good indicator of how soon
the AO requires new data to avoid underflow. Add an internal pipe that
can be used to wake up the input loop from select(), and make the
pulseaudio main loop (which runs in a separate thread) use this
mechanism when pulse requests more data. The wakeup signal currently
contains no information about the reason for the wakup, but audio
buffers are always filled when the event loop wakes up.

Also, request a latency of 1 second from the Pulseaudio server. The
default is normally significantly higher. We don't need low latency,
while higher latency helps prevent underflows reduces need for
wakeups.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/input/input.h b/input/input.h
index 4cd006fa9a..c5f6940990 100644
--- a/input/input.h
+++ b/input/input.h
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ void mp_input_uninit(struct input_ctx *ictx);
 struct m_config;
 void mp_input_register_options(struct m_config *cfg);
 
+// Wake up sleeping input loop from another thread.
+void mp_input_wakeup(struct input_ctx *ictx);
+
 // Interruptible usleep:  (used by libmpdemux)
 int mp_input_check_interrupt(struct input_ctx *ictx, int time);