From kde-multimedia  Sun Oct 01 10:59:11 2000
From: Stefan Schimanski <1Stein () gmx ! de>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:59:11 +0000
To: kde-multimedia
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix kaiman volume decrease
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Am Sat, 30 Sep 2000 schrieb Stefan Westerfeld:

> >    Hi!
>
> I honestly don't know what the purpose of these lines is:
>
>     _volumeControl =3D Arts::StereoVolumeControl::null();
>     _soundServer =3D Arts::SimpleSoundServer::null();
>
> especially not in the stop() of kaiman. However, what they do is lead t=
o
> ever decreasing volume.
>
> Why? You play a song. A volume control effect gets created and inserted=
 in
> initArts(). You stop it. The soundserer and volumecontrol effect get
> assigned to null(). (WHY THIS?). Note that this doesn't actually kill t=
he
> volume control effect, as this still lives happily in the effect stack.
>
> When you push play again, then kaiman sees: ah, got no soundserver. And
> goes creating yet another volume control effect. And so on. Of course, =
if
> you do turn up the volume to the maximum this doesn't impact you (like
> audio signal * 1 * 1 * 1 * 1 =3D audio signal), but if you don't the ov=
erall
> volume steadily decreases.
>
> The patch also happens to do other stuff like setting default fragment =
size
> to -F 5 -S 8192 (which is the kcontrol default, also), and replacing th=
e
> monolithic sleep(5) with segmented sleeps. Please anybody, review, comm=
it.

I'm playing mp3s for the whole day now with this patch. Everything seems =
to=20
be fine.

Schimmi

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