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EdisonJwa d9c330c23b feat(audio,linux): output via SDL2; cpal stays on Windows/macOS
User reported persistent crackling/popping from peer audio on Linux even
after fixing the 48k->device-rate resampler boundary discontinuities,
clamping pre-Opus-encode peaks, and pre-allocating the playback scratch
buffer. Logs confirmed cpal opened raw ALSA at 44.1k native, no callback
budget violations, no underrun warnings -- yet the audio was still poor.

Root cause: cpal on Linux opens raw ALSA's 'default' PCM. On modern
PipeWire / pipewire-alsa boxes that virtual device routes through ALSA's
dmix + plug layers, whose default resampler is nearest-neighbour. cpal
also picks a small default period size (~256 frames / 5.8 ms) leaving no
headroom for kernel scheduler jitter. Both effects compound into the
crackling the user heard.

Upstream tsclientlib's own audio example
(tsclientlib/examples/audio_utils/ts_to_audio.rs) and the official Qint
client both use SDL2 with AudioSpecDesired { freq: 48000, channels: 2,
samples: 960 }. SDL2 on the same systems routes through PipeWire's PA
bridge (or PulseAudio directly), both carrying high-quality resamplers.

Fix:
  * Add sdl2 = '0.37' as a target_os=linux dependency. Links libSDL2-2.0
    .so (Arch sdl2-compat over SDL3, Debian libsdl2-2.0-0, Fedora SDL2).
  * New module crates/chanora_audio/src/sdl_output.rs implementing
    SdlOutput: opens a 48 kHz stereo 960-frame callback that zeroes the
    buffer and calls AudioHandler::fill_buffer directly (no user-side
    resampler). Master gain + hard-mute atomics wired in identically to
    the cpal callback so set_output_gain / set_output_muted keep working.
  * engine.rs cfg-gated: target_os='linux' builds SdlOutput; everywhere
    else continues with the cpal output path (including the device-native-
    rate negotiation and resampler-continuity fixes shipped earlier --
    those remain correct on Windows/macOS where cpal targets WASAPI /
    CoreAudio cleanly).
  * The cpal output helpers (build_output_stream, PlaybackResampleState,
    FromF32) are now cfg(not(target_os='linux'))-gated so the Linux
    build doesn't emit dead-code warnings.

Capture path still cpal on every platform -- outbound audio was not
reported as bad. Resampler-continuity fix on the capture side stays:
microphone -> Opus encoder still goes through the linear interpolator
with the last-sample anchor.

Tests: 32 / 0 / 0 (chanora_audio), workspace 78 / 0 / 1 unchanged.
2026-05-16 12:15:00 +08:00

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//! # `chanora_audio`
//!
//! Audio subsystem promoted from `poc/audio-capture-playback-spike`
//! and wired against `chanora_protocol`'s voice channels.
//!
//! ## What's wired in this Beta
//!
//! * Default-input capture via `cpal` (DEC-011.1)
//! * Frame-aligned 20 ms / 48 kHz mono Opus encoding via `audiopus`
//! * Forward encoded frames to the protocol crate as `OutPacket`s
//! * Inbound voice packets fed to `tsclientlib::audio::AudioHandler`
//! which owns Opus decode + per-client jitter buffer + mix
//! * Mixed f32 PCM pulled by the cpal output callback at 48 kHz stereo
//! * Push-to-talk: capture stream is permanently open; encoding is
//! gated by an atomic `ptt_active` flag
//!
//! ## What's NOT wired in this Beta
//!
//! * AEC / AGC / NS / HPF DSP chain (DEC-007/008/009/010 — Beta+
//! work; the toggles in `AudioEffects` are honoured by *naming*
//! but the filters are no-ops)
//! * Mobile audio paths (DEC-011.1 desktop + Android proven; this
//! integration is desktop-only for v0.2.0-beta.1)
//! * Hot-plug device-change handling
//! * Sample-rate adaptation if the device cannot do 48 kHz / mono in
//! the format we request (returns `AudioError::StreamConfig`)
//! * Multi-channel speaker layouts beyond stereo
#![warn(missing_docs)]
mod engine;
pub mod ptt;
pub mod ptt_backends;
pub mod release_tail;
pub mod transmit_mode;
pub mod transmit_selector;
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
mod sdl_output;
pub use engine::{AudioEngine, AudioEngineConfig};
pub use ptt::{
AudioTransmitGate, MissedKeyUpWatchdog, PttBackendDescriptor, PttCapabilityLevel,
};
pub use ptt_backends::{
select as select_ptt_backend, DesktopPttBackend, FocusedPttBackend, PttBackendError,
PttBinding, PttInputClass,
};
pub use release_tail::{ReleaseTailTimer, DEFAULT_TAIL_MS, MAX_TAIL_MS};
pub use transmit_mode::TransmitMode;
pub use transmit_selector::TransmitModeSelector;
use thiserror::Error;
/// Errors raised by the audio subsystem.
#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum AudioError {
/// Platform did not expose a usable default input device.
#[error("no default input device")]
NoInputDevice,
/// Platform did not expose a usable default output device.
#[error("no default output device")]
NoOutputDevice,
/// The audio backend rejected a stream configuration.
#[error("stream config rejected: {0}")]
StreamConfig(String),
/// Opus codec init/encode/decode failure.
#[error("opus: {0}")]
Opus(String),
/// A backend-specific failure surfaced without a typed mapping.
#[error("audio backend: {0}")]
Backend(String),
}
/// Audio-effect toggles. Defaults match DEC-007 (AEC),
/// DEC-008 (AGC), DEC-009 (NS), DEC-010 (HPF) — all enabled.
///
/// Note: in Beta v0.2.0-beta.1 the actual DSP filters are not yet
/// implemented; the struct is kept here as the public API surface so
/// later work can flip an internal flag without breaking callers.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct AudioEffects {
/// Acoustic echo cancellation (DEC-007).
pub aec: bool,
/// Automatic gain control (DEC-008).
pub agc: bool,
/// Noise suppression (DEC-009).
pub noise_suppression: bool,
/// High-pass filter (DEC-010).
pub high_pass: bool,
}
impl Default for AudioEffects {
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
aec: true,
agc: true,
noise_suppression: true,
high_pass: true,
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn defaults_match_decisions() {
let e = AudioEffects::default();
assert!(e.aec && e.agc && e.noise_suppression && e.high_pass);
}
}