Re: [ecasound] .ewf problem (BUG?)

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Julien Claassen wrote:

> A simple scenario... I think it would suffice to take 7 .ewf-files each 200
> secs long and concatenate them. The first error messages come around 4 or 5
> .ewfs connected. I never tried it with shorter wavefiles. Maybe I could.
> One things sure though: With 3 .ewfs everything worked fine.

Ok, I managed to reproduce this, and find a fix to the problem. The
problem was not in the ewf implementation, but in the disk i/o subsystem
(you wouldn't have got the error if you had tried with -z:nodb). More
precisely, the disk i/o subsystem didn't correctly detect the finished
state, and thus, it reported underruns for files that in fact had no data
left.

I reproduced the problem with a setup that had seven .ewf files, each
250sec of length and placed file after another using the ewf 'offset'
attribute, with a total lengh of 30min. Btw, the recent fixes to disk i/o
scheduling have also improved performance a bit.

The fix in CVS and in the following snapshot:

- http://ecasound.seul.org/download/snapshots/ecasound-2.4.3-cvs-20050821.tar.gz

Let me know if this works better!

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