audio/paaudio: prolong and make latency configurable

The latency of a connection to the PulseAudio server is determined by
the tlength parameter. This was hardcoded to 10ms, which is a bit too
tight on my machine, causing audio on host and guest to malfunction.
A setting of 15ms works fine here. To allow tweaking, I also made the
setting configurable via the new -audiodev config. This allows to squeeze out better timings in scenarios where the emulation allows it.

I also removed setting of the minreq parameter to (seemingly arbitrary) half the latency, since it showed worse audio quality during my tests. Allowing PulseAudio to request smaller chunks helped.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190315084653.120020-3-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/audio/paaudio.c b/audio/paaudio.c
index ab2a37b..be27c73 100644
--- a/audio/paaudio.c
+++ b/audio/paaudio.c
@@ -549,12 +549,8 @@ static int qpa_init_out(HWVoiceOut *hw, struct audsettings *as,
     ss.channels = as->nchannels;
     ss.rate = as->freq;
 
-    /*
-     * qemu audio tick runs at 100 Hz (by default), so processing
-     * data chunks worth 10 ms of sound should be a good fit.
-     */
-    ba.tlength = pa_usec_to_bytes (10 * 1000, &ss);
-    ba.minreq = pa_usec_to_bytes (5 * 1000, &ss);
+    ba.tlength = pa_usec_to_bytes(ppdo->latency, &ss);
+    ba.minreq = -1;
     ba.maxlength = -1;
     ba.prebuf = -1;
 
@@ -818,6 +814,10 @@ static int qpa_validate_per_direction_opts(Audiodev *dev,
         pdo->has_buffer_length = true;
         pdo->buffer_length = 46440;
     }
+    if (!pdo->has_latency) {
+        pdo->has_latency = true;
+        pdo->latency = 15000;
+    }
     return 1;
 }