The pulseaudio backend currently converts, clips and copies audio
playback samples in the mixing-engine sample buffer multiple
times.

In qpa_get_buffer_out() the function pa_stream_begin_write()
returns a rather large buffer and this allows audio_pcm_hw_run_out()
in audio/audio.c to copy all samples in the mixing-engine buffer
to the pulse audio buffer. Immediately after copying, qpa_write()
notices with a call to pa_stream_writable_size() that pulse audio
only needs a smaller part of the copied samples and ignores the
rest. This copy and ignore process happens several times for each
audio sample.

To fix this behaviour, call pa_stream_writable_size() in
qpa_get_buffer_out() to limit the number of samples
audio_pcm_hw_run_out() will convert. With this change the
pulseaudio pcm_ops functions put_buffer_out and write are no
longer identical and a separate qpa_put_buffer_out is needed.

Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Message-id: 9315afe5-5958-c0b4-ea1e-14769511a9d5@t-online.de
Message-Id: <20210110100239.27588-13-vr_qemu@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>