Sound delay without SDL_mixer

SDL Development
#1

Hello,

I saw such kind of question on the net but mainly when using SDL_mixer and in fact I didn’t really found answer ever.
In my case, I do not use it and when I play a sound, I have almost 1 second of delay.

My code, running on Linux with SDL2.0.9 is:

void audioCallback(void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len) {

	pthread_mutex_lock (&condvar_audio_lock);

	if (audioLen == -1) {
		audioLen = 0;
		pthread_cond_signal (&cond_var_audio);
	}

	if (audioLen ==0) {
		SDL_PauseAudioDevice(deviceId, 1);
		pthread_mutex_unlock (&condvar_audio_lock);
		return;
	}

	len = ( len > audioLen ? audioLen : len );
	SDL_memcpy (stream, audioPos, len); 					// simply copy from one buffer into the other

	audioPos += len;
	audioLen -= len;
	pthread_mutex_unlock (&condvar_audio_lock);
}

void WID_playAudio(WID_sound_t *sound) {
    if (canPlayAudio && (sound->buffer != NULL)) {

    	pthread_mutex_lock (&condvar_audio_lock);

    	if (audioLen > 0) {
    		audioLen = -1;
    		while (audioLen == -1) {
    			pthread_cond_wait(&cond_var_audio, &condvar_audio_lock);
    		}
    	}

	    audioPos = sound->buffer; // copy sound buffer
    	audioLen = sound->bufferLen; // copy file length

   		pthread_mutex_unlock (&condvar_audio_lock);
		SDL_PauseAudioDevice(deviceId, 0);
    }
}


void main(void) {
	    SDL_memset(&audioSpec, 0, sizeof(audioSpec));
	    audioSpec.freq = 22050;
	    audioSpec.channels = 1;
	    audioSpec.format = AUDIO_S16;
	    audioSpec.callback = audioCallback;

	    if ((deviceId = SDL_OpenAudioDevice(NULL, 0, &audioSpec , NULL, 0)) == 0) {
	    	canPlayAudio = true;
	    }

	    WID_startupSound = WID_calloc(1, sizeof(WID_sound_t));

	    // Fill up the sound sample
	    if (WID_setSoundResources(WID_startupSound, "sound_file/startup", "sounds/sound_resources.json") == WID_OK) {
	        WID_playAudio(WID_startupSound);
	    }
	
}

Any idea?
That would be a pity to use system(‘aplay mysound.wav’) which works great !

Kind regards,
Alain