Expose internal device properties from audio backend#69
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After initialization, miniaudio's ma_device struct contains both the requested and the actual (internal) format, channel count, and sample rate for capture and playback. The internal values reflect what the audio backend actually negotiated, which can differ from what the application requested. A common case is ALSA's dsnoop plugin, which locks the hardware at a fixed sample rate and silently resamples. The existing SampleRate() method returns the requested rate, hiding the mismatch. The new CaptureInternalSampleRate() and PlaybackInternalSampleRate() methods let callers detect this. New methods: - CaptureInternalSampleRate / PlaybackInternalSampleRate - CaptureInternalFormat / PlaybackInternalFormat - CaptureInternalChannels / PlaybackInternalChannels
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After device initialization, miniaudio stores both the requested and the
actual (internal) format, channel count, and sample rate in ma_device. The
internal values reflect what the audio backend negotiated, which can differ
from what the application asked for.
A practical example: ALSA's dsnoop plugin locks the hardware at a fixed
sample rate (typically 48 kHz) and silently resamples everything else.
The existing SampleRate() returns the requested rate, so callers have no
way to detect the mismatch. CaptureInternalSampleRate() reads
capture.internalSampleRate from the underlying ma_device struct, giving
the actual hardware rate.
This adds six read-only accessors, three per direction (capture/playback):
All are non-breaking additions that follow the same pattern as the existing
PlaybackFormat(), CaptureChannels(), etc.