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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:09:32 +0300 From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@ray.fi> To: sdl@libsdl.org Subject: [SDL] [RFC] get_ticks broken on linux It uses gettimeofday to calculate the timedifference. Gettimeofday returns current time which is seldom monotonous. This breaks SDL timer subsystem. (time callbacks and all that get borked when the time difference ms is suddenly ~ 2^32) I posted a message about this earlier but got no response. Some thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. (Or even an explanation for the lack of interest.) A patch below would use the posix timers that have been around since posix 93 and do provide a good source of monotonous time on linux boxes (and on few others too). The following patch is also availabe at: http://www.hut.fi/u/tkyntola/SDL-1.2.9-clockfix.patch It's against 1.2.9, but I can easily rediffit against the cvs branch is needed. cheers, Tommi Kyntola tommi.kyntola@ray.fi
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:16:12 +0000
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>SDL_AudioSpec</H1
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>Name</H2
>SDL_AudioSpec&nbsp;--&nbsp;Audio Specification Structure</DIV
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>typedef struct{
  int freq;
  Uint16 format;
  Uint8 channels;
  Uint8 silence;
  Uint16 samples;
  Uint32 size;
  void (*callback)(void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len);
  void *userdata;
} SDL_AudioSpec;</PRE
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>freq</I
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>Audio frequency in samples per second</TD
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>Audio data format</TD
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>Number of channels: 1 mono, 2 stereo</TD
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>Audio buffer silence value (calculated)</TD
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>Callback function for filling the audio buffer</TD
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>Pointer the user data which is passed to the callback function</TD
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>The <SPAN
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>The number of samples sent to the sound device every second. Common values are 11025, 22050 and 44100. The higher the better.</P
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>Specifies the size and type of each sample element
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>Unsigned 8-bit samples</P
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>Unsigned 16-bit little-endian samples</P
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>Signed 16-bit little-endian samples</P
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