[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:46:11 +0100

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:39:39 +0200, David Olofson wrote:
> Anyway, yes, we should use different flags for "silent buffer" and "no 
> connection". Some plugins might save lots of cycles in process() by 
> setting up the internals properly at connection time, but they may 
> not be able to reevaluate that for every process() call. Other 
> plugins may, as has been suggested before, have special ideas about 
> what "no connection" means, which are not compatible with the idea of 
> silent buffers in the input streams.

Oh dear. I really dont want to rrake over the old magic silence arguments,
I /realy/ dont think its a good idea, its just a haven for bugs and
unpredicatable behaviour.

Flagging connected/unconected is fine by me, silence detection is not.

- Steve

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