[MPlayer-dev-eng] ALSA issue, r29549 fix seems incomplete

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:01:57PM +0100, Sylvain Bertrand wrote:
> > Is the issue that _all_ calls are rounded to 0, and as a result
> > no sound plays?
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> To narrow down the real issue:

I can't see how your questions would help there.

>   - What is the purpose of "ao_data.outburst"?

To define a kind of block size that the writes to the ao try to observe.

>   - What does make mandatory the amount of bytes passed to the play
> function more than "ao_data.outburst"?

Performance and alignment issues.

Far more interesting would be what the value of ao_data.outburst is in your case
and why len does not not become larger than that.