[ITA] SDL2 (2.26.2)

[Takashi Yano]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:24:35 +0000
Jon Turney wrote:
> On 22/01/2023 12:05, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:58:55 +0000
> > Jon Turney wrote:
> >> You've made some changes in the configuration here (switching from
> >> enabling pulseaudio to oss)
> >>
> >> I think you've also dropped the winmm patch.
> >>
> >> I don't understand enough to evaluate the correctness those changes, so
> >> it would be nice if you could explain that to me.
> > 
> > Thanks for reviewing. The reason why I turnd off pulseaudio
> > is that the latency was unacceptably large, despite the fact
> > that pulseaudio is preferred over other sound drivers.
> > Due to this, ffplay missynchronized sound with video.
> > 
> > Also, I guess OSS was previously disabled because it does not
> > work as expected due to a bug of cygwin:
> > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2023q1/012134.html
> > and winmm was enabled instead.
> > 
> > Now, the bug has been fixed and SDL2 gets working with OSS.
> > Therefore, we don't need winmm support anymore. I think
> > it is better not to call winmm directly from cygwin apps.
> > 
> > BTW, I tried to modify SDL2 code to minimize the latency of
> > pulseaudio and it succeeded. So, I re-enabled the pulseaudio
> > and updated the package.
> > 
> > Could you please review the package again?
> 
> Thanks for this explanation, it all makes sense now.
> 
> Please go ahead.

Version updated to 2.26.3.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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