Re: [PATCH v3] ALSA: compress: allow setting codec params after next track

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:28:05 +0200,
Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> 
> For gapless playback it is possible that each track can have different
> codec profile with same decoder, for example we have WMA album,
> we may have different tracks as WMA v9, WMA v10 and so on
> 
> Or if DSP's like QDSP have abililty to switch decoders on single stream
> for each track, then this call could be used to set new codec parameters.
> 
> Existing code does not allow to change this profile while doing gapless
> playback.
> 
> Reuse existing SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS to set this new track params along
> some additional checks to enforce proper state machine.
> 
> With this new changes now the user can call SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS
> anytime after setting next track and additional check in write should
> also ensure that params are set before writing new data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
>  simplified the logic to allow set_params and udated the documentation accordingly

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi