Re: [hatari-devel] SDL1 vs. SDL2 sound pausing

[David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 10/09/2016 à 22:19, David Savinkoff a écrit :
> 
> > I think we should not make big changes because Hatari has worked
> > well for a long time. Note that this problem is an Apple(tm) glitch.
> > I think that adding an improvement to the old code is better than
> > staring over with a new concept.
> >
> >
> 
> I wouldn't call replacing the sound duplication by some 0 bytes a big 
> change or a new concept, impacts are minimal.
> 
> When Hatari is duplicating sound samples, it means the host pc is not 
> fast enough ; are there really many people today with some PC not fast 
> enough to run Hatari in ST/STE mode ? (not counting Falcon mode as 
> cpu+dsp emulation requires really a lot more cpu)
> 
> IMO, this sound duplication is confusing from a code-wise logic, and it 
> prooved to be wrong as we discovered that it was the cause of the sound 
> problem under OSX. I think that setting Buffer to '0' when not enough 
> bytes are received solves all the cases.
> 
> I'd rather have some '0' bytes that give an audible click when things 
> are not fast enough (at least the user know something not correct is 
> happening) than some date duplication that might give a distorted / 
> strange sound instea (where the user might just think our emulation is 
> not correct, while in fact it's a cpu problem)

I believe newer cpu's create the problem ;)

> 
> Nicolas
> 
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