Closed Bug 928797 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

<video> framerate regression on mac after cubeb audiounit latency change

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(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

x86
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla28

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(Reporter: alessandro.d, Assigned: padenot)

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https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=616980966644&tochange=6ca71aca6e9e caused a big regression in <video> framerate on mac.

For example playing http://download.blender.org/peach/trailer/trailer_400p.ogg I get 312 rendered frames over 813 decoded frames. The culprit seems to be in the following change to media/cubeb/src/cubeb_audiounit.c:

  /* Set the maximum number of frame that the render callback will ask for,
   * effectively setting the latency of the stream. This is process-wide. */
  r = AudioUnitSetProperty(stm->unit, kAudioDevicePropertyBufferFrameSize,
                           kAudioUnitScope_Output, 0, &buffer_size, sizeof(buffer_size));

I am no AudioUnit expert but by googling a little I found a kAudioUnitProperty_MaximumFramesPerSlice that seems to do what the comment above says. Setting that property seems to fix the issue.
Oh and forgot to mention that we probably need a test to check that we aren't dropping more than 10% of the frames or so...
Comment on attachment 819568 [details] [diff] [review]
0001-Bug-928797-framerate-regression-on-mac-after-cubeb-a.patch

Setting myself as a reviewer, I'll double check that when I arrive at the office, but it seems ok.
Attachment #819568 - Flags: review?(paul)
Comment on attachment 819568 [details] [diff] [review]
0001-Bug-928797-framerate-regression-on-mac-after-cubeb-a.patch

Review of attachment 819568 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Reading [1], we see that this new call has more likely no effect (because this particular audio unit is an IO unit), and thus this patch reverts to the previous behavior.

I'm going to write a patch to address this.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AudioUnit/Reference/AudioUnitPropertiesReference/Reference/reference.html#jumpTo_54
Attachment #819568 - Flags: review?(paul) → review-
This fixes the situation.
Attachment #821044 - Flags: review?(kinetik)
Assignee: nobody → paul
Interesting. Did you find out why framerate drops if latency is increased? Is it the clock synchronization in the decoder state machine?
Maybe, I just wanted to get a working patch. I'll now investigate the causes.
Comment on attachment 821044 [details] [diff] [review]
Only set the audio output latency on mac if it is lower than the default. r=

Oh, yeah.  Because the audio "clock" is driven by updates in the render callback (stm->frames_played), causing the render callback to run less frequently causes the clock resolution to drop.
Attachment #821044 - Flags: review?(kinetik) → review+
Sorry, bug 701384 even.
Pushed to try with some instrumentation (this has always been green locally): https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=f17d14b61bba
The failure was because I forgot to initialize the `size` variable when getting
the property.
e5063d54b289 has been merged to mozilla-central, closing.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Confirmed. Playback is smooth with all frames reported as presented in Nightly 28.0a1 (2013-11-18).

Thanks, Paul!
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla28
Depends on: 943618
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