Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:48:19 +0100 From: Max Horn Subject: Re: Again Audio CD patch Am 04.01.2004 um 22:38 schrieb Sam Lantinga: > > Okay, I fixed the buffering problems by simply using a 4 second buffer > instead of a 1 second buffer. However, using your code I can't play an > entire CD - the playback stops after the first song. > Found the problem: FSReadFork returns eofErr when the file is finished. However, we check its return value for errors, and if anything but noErr occurs, the reader thread aborts its current iteration. That is bad, because it aborts before it can ever set the flag which tells that the file is over (also, any remaining data which FSRead did return is lost - so you'd not hear about to 4 seconds from the end of the file. Furthermore, the computed data size was 8 bytes to high (I forgot to account for the fact that the size of an (A)IFF chunk always contains the chunk header & size fields, too). This is enough to make it work. However, the end condition is rather fragile, so I tuned some other things to be pessimistic (check for <= 0 instead of == 0, when eofErr is encountered enforce mReadFilePosition == mFileLength). You never know... The attached patch fixes the issue for me.

These are test programs for the SDL library:

	testver		Check the version and dynamic loading and endianness
	testtypes	Check to see if the data types are the correct size
	testhread	Hacked up test of multi-threading
	testlock	Hacked up test of multi-threading and locking
	testerror	Tests multi-threaded error handling
	testsem		Tests SDL's semaphore implementation
	testtimer	Test the timer facilities
	loopwave	Audio test -- loop playing a WAV file
	testcdrom	Sample audio CD control program
	testkeys	List the available keyboard keys
	testvidinfo	Show the pixel format of the display
	checkkeys	Watch the key events to check the keyboard
	testwin		Display a BMP image at various depths
	graywin		Display a gray gradient and center mouse on spacebar
	testsprite	Example of fast sprite movement on the screen
	testbitmap	Test displaying 1-bit bitmaps
	testalpha	Display an alpha faded icon -- paint with mouse
	testwm		Test window manager -- title, icon, events
	threadwin	Test multi-threaded event handling
	testgl		A very simple example of using OpenGL with SDL
	testjoystick	List joysticks and watch joystick events