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    Anticross
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    It seems like data sending through RTP is converted to BigEndian format before reaching client. But I find no BigEndian support of playback, so maybe I need to do some fast conversation. Question: How to do that ?

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      tobias.hunger
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      RTP defines all values to be transmitted in big-endian, so no surprise there;-)

      http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qtendian.html to the rescue.

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        Anticross
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        OK, thanks. Another question: I have @unsigned char const* data@ with size @unsigned dataSize@ , qFromBigEndian needs to chose type (qInt16,qInt32,qInt64), and returns value of it's type, but how can I put this data back into unsigned char const* array with size of dataSize ?

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          Anticross
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          This does not helped:
          @
          char * dt = new char[dataSize];
          itoa(qFromBigEndian<qint16>(data),dt,2);
          m_buf->writeData((const char*)dt,dataSize);
          delete dt;
          @

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            Anticross
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            Edited to :
            @qint16 val = qFromBigEndian<qint16>(data);
            uchar* dt = new uchar[dataSize];
            qToLittleEndian<qint16>(val,dt);
            m_buf->writeData((const char*)dt,dataSize);
            delete dt;@
            But the quality of audio is worse then without conversation.

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              Anticross
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              I write function:
              @bool SpeakerSink::toLittleEndian( const char * src, int size, int nBits)
              {
              if(src == NULL)
              return false;

              for (int i = 0; i < size; i+=nBits) {
                  qint16 val = qFromBigEndian<qint16>((const uchar*)(src+i));
                  qMemCopy((void*)(src+i),&val,nBits);
              }
              
              return true;
              

              }@
              It solve task of converting from big-endian to little-endian and in headphones I get the same result(I mean sound is recognizable but bad quality) as if my server will transmit data without conversation to big-endian. But sound still distorted and interrupts.

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                Anticross
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                I open VLC player and receive this stream normally, then I look at codec details and see some PCM S16BE(twos). So what is it and can I transform data to play normal PCM on QAudioOutput ? So is it 16-bit Big-endian pcm or something else? What means S ?

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                  Anticross
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                  I record output of my sound card when receiving stream with sine of 1000 Hz. After opening it in Sound Forge I see pauses in this sine with delays from 5 ms to 25 ms but sine has the same shape(I mean no distortions).

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                    tobias.hunger
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                    Sorry, no idea what kind of data you send around your network;-)

                    Why do you have nBits in the toLittleEndian method shown above? Anything but nBits == 2 breaks the method, doesn't it? The name is rather confusing, too... shouldn't it at least be nBytes?

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                      Anticross
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                      You're right the name must be at least nBytes :) Maybe QAudioOutput reads the buffer faster than it writes by receiving data from network, and I just need to wait some time before playing.

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                        I rewrite my audio buffer class. Now it looks like this:
                        @#ifndef AUDIOBUFFER_H
                        #define AUDIOBUFFER_H

                        #include <QAudioFormat>
                        #include <QIODevice>
                        #include <QMutex>
                        #include <QDebug>

                        class AudioBuffer : public QIODevice
                        {
                        Q_OBJECT

                        public:
                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        AudioBuffer(/const QAudioFormat &format,/ QObject parent = NULL, int bufSize = 1400) : QIODevice(parent)
                        {
                        m_bufSize = bufSize
                        4;

                            m_buffer1 = new const char[m_bufSize];
                            m_buffer2 = new const char[m_bufSize];
                        
                            m_rightOffset = 0;
                            m_leftOffset  = 0;
                            m_cursor      = 0;
                        
                            qMemSet((void *)m_buffer1,0,m_bufSize);
                        
                        }
                        

                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        ~AudioBuffer()
                        {
                        delete m_buffer1;
                        delete m_buffer2;
                        }
                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        void start()
                        {
                        if(!isOpen())
                        open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
                        }
                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        void stop()
                        {
                        close();
                        }
                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        qint64 readData(char * data, qint64 len)
                        {
                        int free2end = m_bufSize-m_cursor;

                            if(len <= free2end){
                                qMemCopy(data,m_buffer1+m_cursor,len);
                        
                                m_rightOffset += len;
                                m_cursor += len;
                        
                                return len;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                qMemCopy(data,m_buffer1+m_cursor,free2end);
                        
                                m_cursor = 0;
                        
                                qMemCopy(data+free2end,m_buffer1,len-free2end);
                        
                                m_rightOffset = len-free2end;
                                m_leftOffset = 0;
                                m_cursor += m_rightOffset;
                        
                                return len;
                            }
                        
                            return 0;
                        }
                        

                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        qint64 writeData(const char *data, qint64 len)
                        {
                        int free2end = m_bufSize-m_rightOffset;

                            if(len <= free2end) // if we don't reach end of buffer
                            {
                                qMemCopy((void*)(m_buffer1+m_rightOffset),data,len);
                                m_rightOffset += len;
                        
                                qDebug() << m_buffer1;
                        
                                return len;
                            }
                            else if(len <= (m_leftOffset+free2end))
                            {
                                qMemCopy((void*)(m_buffer1+m_rightOffset),data,free2end); //write to end
                                m_leftOffset = len-free2end; // need to write more from source and set new left offset
                                qMemCopy((void*)m_buffer1,data+free2end,m_leftOffset); //write lefted part 
                                m_rightOffset = m_leftOffset; // set new right offset value
                                m_leftOffset  = 0; // set new left offset value
                        
                                qDebug() << m_buffer1;
                        
                                return len;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                qMemCopy((void*)(m_buffer1+m_rightOffset),data,free2end); //write to end
                                m_rightOffset += len-free2end; // need to write more from source
                        
                                len -= free2end;
                        
                                qMemCopy((void*)m_buffer1,data+free2end,m_leftOffset); //write lefted part 
                                m_rightOffset = 0; // set new right offset value
                        
                                len -= m_leftOffset;
                        
                                m_leftOffset = 0;
                        
                                qDebug() << m_buffer1;
                        
                                return len;
                            }
                        
                            return 0;
                        }
                        

                        //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        private:
                        const char * m_buffer1;
                        const char * m_buffer2;
                        int m_rightOffset;
                        int m_leftOffset;
                        int m_cursor;
                        int m_bufSize;
                        };

                        #endif//AUDIOBUFFER_H@
                        And now I'm using it like this:
                        @m_output->start(m_buf);@
                        and it enters write data functions, but doesn't reads data. So question: How QAudioOutput asks for the data to play from QIODevice ? Is it call readData function or not ? And one more question: Is it possible to play rtsp stream using Phonon ?

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                          Anticross
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                          One more question whats the main difference between push and pull mode of playing ?

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                            Anticross
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                            Interesting thing: when I play 22050 Hz 16 bit 2 channels audio stream - it plays normally without interruptions, but when playing 44100 Hz 16 bit stereo - not. If I open same stream(44 kHz) in VLC player or any other it plays normally without interruptions.

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                              billconan
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                              this is an interesting thread. a QAudioOuput from a buffer example should be added to the document.

                              too bad the document only has an example of playing a file.

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                                has this issue been resolved yet? I also need to achieve the same thing?

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                                  has this issue been resolved yet? I also need to achieve the same thing?

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                                    lynic
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                                    I had a similar problem using a ringbuffer as a QIODevice backend for which I spent a whole day. The solution was to override the following method:

                                    @bool isSequential() const
                                    {
                                    return true;
                                    }@

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                                      I had a similar problem using a ringbuffer as a QIODevice backend for which I spent a whole day. The solution was to override the following method:

                                      @bool isSequential() const
                                      {
                                      return true;
                                      }@

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