* alsa hotplug thread is low priority
* give a chance for other threads to catch up when audio playback is not progressing
* use nonblocking for alsa audio capture
There is a bug with SDL hanging when an audio capture USB device is removed, because poll never returns
These don't have to be power-of-2 sizes anymore because of SDL_AudioStream,
and the new resampler, but also, many platforms don't give you power-of-2 DMA
buffer in the first place!
We will throw away the data anyhow, but some apps depend on the callback
firing to make progress; testmultiaudio.c, if nothing else, is an example
of this.
Capture also will now fire the callback in these conditions, offering nothing
but silence.
Apps can check SDL_GetAudioDeviceStatus() or listen for the
SDL_AUDIODEVICEREMOVED event if they want to gracefully deal with
an opened audio device that has been unexpectedly lost.
According to Steam's OS stats, Windows 8.0 use is pretty much nil. Further,
Microsoft hasn't support Windows 8.0 development in any of their
actively-updated toolchains, and setting it up can be a pain.
In theory, SDL2 still supports Windows 8.0, however building of Windows 8.0
.dlls is no longer the default, if and when using the 'winrtbuild.*' scripts.
The MSVC 2012 project files for building Windows 8.0 dlls remain, though,
for the time being.
This is just enough to get you through a file that just used the extended
header for float or int data. It doesn't handle all the other things that
you expect from this header, like 24-bit samples inside a 32-bit container
or speaker masks.
This should remain binary compatible with Windows XP, as we dynamically
load anything we need and fall back to DirectSound/WinMM/XAudio2 if not
available.
Like other C runtimes, it should probably produce the string "(null)".
This bug probably only affected Windows, as most platforms use their standard
C runtime's snprintf().
