Sunday, September 4, 2011

What's left to be done now

The GSoC project time is officially over, but the multichannel and resampler project of XMMS2 is not quite over yet. Biggest setback that came up was the fact that libresample and other related libraries didn't support multichannel interleaving, so that needs to be done manually instead. My attempt at hacking it into the sample.c was a big failure and resulted in spaghetti code, so it's better to do it properly. The list of things to do now is somewhat:
  1. Write a clean resampler interface that can use both libresample (LGPL) and libsamplerate (GPL) and doesn't depend on XMMS2. If it is possible to make it resemble libsamplerate API a lot of other applications might benefit from it as well.
  2. Patch the current sample.c code to use the cleaner resampler interface, which should be quite straightforward.
  3. Write the converter plugin support for multichannel, it would need a lot of thinking, but that can be avoided pretty much by looking at the logic presented in PulseAudio calc_map_table found from src/pulsecore/resampler.c
  4. Add channelmap support for pulse output plugin, add multichannel support to ALSA output plugin, add multichannel support for waveout plugin (easiest, but who's gonna test?)
  5. Write tests and make sure everything works, especially coerce needs new tests because it's a bit broken already now. (output plugins with no channel count defined don't work nicely)

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