In current aplay, default action is to transfer data frames from/to
devices. This commit adds support for this functionality.
Event loop is included in an added file. In the loop, the number of
handled data frames is manipulated by an appropriate way. As a result, users
can stop data transmission frames by frame.
Unlike aplay, when catching SIGSTP, this application performs to suspend
PCM substream. When catching SIGCONT, it performs to resume the PCM
substream. The aim of this design is to avoid XRUN state of the PCM
substream. If users/developers need to any XRUN-recovery test, it's
better to work for the other ways.
Below lines are examples to execute:
$ axfer transfer -P -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv
$ axfer transfer -C -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Original aplay implementation has a feature to output two types of list;
devices and PCMs. The list of devices is a result to query sound card and
pcm component structured maintained in kernel land. The list of PCMs is a
result to parse runtime configuration files in alsa-lib. Entries in the
former list is corresponding to ALSA PCM character device
('/dev/snd/pcm%uC%uD[p|c]'), while entries in the latter list includes
some 'virtual' instances in application runtime.
This commit adds an implementation for the above functionality. This is
executed by taking 'list' sub-command. A 'device' option has the same
effect as '--list-devices' and '-L' of aplay. A 'pcm' option has the same
effect as '--list-pcms' and '-l' of aplay. In both cases, an additional
option is required for stream direction. Below is examples of new command
system for this sub-command.
$ axfer list device -C (= arecord --list-devices)
$ axfer list pcm -P (= aplay -l)
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds a new command, 'axfer' ('ALSA transfer'), to transfer data
frames described in asound.h. This command is intended to replace current
aplay. The most of features and command line parameters come from aplay as
much as possible, while it has more better feature and code to maintain.
This commit adds an entry point for this command. Current option system of
aplay is still available, while this command has a sub-command system like
commands in iproute2.
Currently, two sub-commands are supported; 'list' and 'transfer'. The
'list' sub-command has the same effect as '-l' and '-L' options of aplay.
The 'transfer' sub-command has the same effect as the main feature of
aplay. For the sub-command system, an option for stream direction is
required; '-P' for playback and '-C' for capture. If you create symbolic
links to this binary for aplay/arecord, please execute:
$ ln -s axfer aplay
$ ln -s axfer arecord
Actual code for each sub-command will be implemented in later commits.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
