From: Thomas Martitz <thomas47_at_arcor.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:29:30 +0100

alex wallis schrieb:
> HI. I see, so am I following you right, your proposing that battery
> bench should be altered so that it doesn't use the plugin buffer at all?
> is that right? or is that how it now works? sorry I just found your
> english slightly hard to follow.
> Also, when you talk about stopping and starting playback isn't that
> something the user has to do already when there going to start the
> battery bench plugin.
> I no a blind user would have to at least, because at the moment of
> course, in order to use speech effectively you have to stop playback
> as its hard to hear speech when an audio file is playing, and you
> can't use speech when a file is paused.
As of now it uses the plugin buffer. Using the main ram would remove the
limitation to be not able to run other plugins.

As for the playback: No, in it's current form it starts with active
playback and it doesn't stop it.
In my proposal you would need to stop the playback (in order to steal
main ram safely). That's something that can be done automatically on
starting though (mpegplayer and doom do it).

I'm not sure what speech has to do with it.
Received on 2008-10-27