Sound delay on Android

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  I did some tests and can tell that playing small mp3 has much lower delay.
  I saw a lot of topics about that problem starting from 2012. I'm wondering why this is not fixed yet..

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014

  No, I think there will be a new sound system in Gideros 2 that will solve this problem. Hopefully...

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  @SinisterSoft,
  So we can't release games until Gideros 2 is out?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014

  There is something wrong with render to target that makes a Samsung Galaxy Fame crash. Hopefully this is fixed in the next build or 2.0 - so I'm waiting too.

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  @SinisterSoft,
  Yes, I reported that too. There are several bugs with render target..

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014 edited May 2014

  I even set the scale to no scale and back again after I've allocated the render size - still a crash on that particular phone.
  
  Seems the phone is pretty popular too as it was a giveaway phone on a cheap Virgin tariff.
  

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  I had a crash using Widget Candy's list (it uses RenderTarget). I have to recreate list each time it's updated to avoid this.

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  Nice.. Seems Gideros can't handle playing small mp3s frequently.
  Just got the crash after playing my game 5 min:
  
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae097c 78761625 /data/app-lib/com.twisty.player-2/libgideros.so (GGSoundManager::preTick()+12)
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae0980 7ddb46e8
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae0984 787617d3 /data/app-lib/com.twisty.player-2/libgideros.so (GGAudioManager::preTick()+10)
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae0988 7ab093ec
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae098c 78760343 /data/app-lib/com.twisty.player-2/libgideros.so (gevent_CallbackList::dispatchEvent(int, void*)+138)
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): #00 78ae0990 00000002
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): ........ ........
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): #01 78ae0990 00000002
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae0994 7d9bfd68
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae0998 00000438
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae099c 00000000
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09a0 00000000
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09a4 00000780
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09a8 78ae0a24 [stack:9042]
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09ac 7ab093c0
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09b0 00000001
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09b4 7ab093e8
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09b8 7db80748
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09bc 7ab093ec
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09c0 7876a365 /data/app-lib/com.twisty.player-2/libgideros.so (GGBackgroundMediaPlayerManager::callback_s(int, void*, void*))
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): 78ae09c4 78760401 /data/app-lib/com.twisty.player-2/libgideros.so (gevent::EventManager::tick()+92)
  05-09 19:34:38.256: I/DEBUG(265): #02 78ae09c8 80053598
  
  Who knows good sound library?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2014

  @Artiom for now please use wav for small file playback and mp3 for continues background music playback

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  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  @ar2rsawseen,
  But what to do with delay? I can't release game when user presses a button and hears sound in a half second.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014

  It's not half a second - but it is a few frames. Hopefully the sound system will be changed for v2.
  

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  @SinisterSoft,
  Few frames is about ~32ms, it can't be noticeable. I exactly hear long delay.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2014

  @Artiom even with wav?
  Because I don't see anything so noticeable even on my very old Android device:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jenots.dummytown
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jenots.mashballs
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jenots.kickyball
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jenots.x2048
  

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014

  @ar2rsawseen - I've noticed slight (noticable) delays (a lag, but not 30 frames worth - maybe between 8 and 16 on a Galaxy S3) and I clip the sound right to the beginning.
  
  Maybe the sound has to be processed before being played? What sound format are you using 16-bit/8-bit/frequency/mono/stereo etc.. Which is fastest to play?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2014

  all the sound effects are done in wav, 16bit, sample rate 44.1kHz

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2014

  I'm using 22k or less, I wonder if there is some processing done to upscale them?
  

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• Artiom Member

  May 2014

  @SinisterSoft, @ar2rsawseen,
  Seems that problem is in my HTC One :O
  Tested on some older devices and it works like a charm almost without delay.

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