feat(audio): allow sending continuous audio

[mariotaku]

Description

When host has no audio playing, Sunshine won't send audio. For webOS client, when surround sound is used, video will freeze when there is no audio coming in.

This PR allows the host to send empty audio frame in such case, mitigating webOS freezing issue.

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• fix: Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
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[andygrundman]

LGTM, nice and simple, and seems fine as a hidden setting. I guess the only downside is that the audio stream is CBR so all those zeroes still consume 512k/1.5Mb/2Mb.

[codecov]

Bundle Report

Bundle size has no change ✅

[ReenigneArcher]

seems fine as a hidden setting.

I believe this a setting that comes from the client itself, right?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 0% with 16 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 11.97%. Comparing base (246d8f1) to head (e3069d9).
⚠️ Report is 78 commits behind head on master.

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src/nvhttp.cpp	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️
src/platform/linux/audio.cpp	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[mariotaku]

@ReenigneArcher Yes. Only when the client requests continuousAudio=1 via launch request, Sunshine will feed empty audio frame when it's not able to capture one.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

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[ns6089]

It's simple because it has an inherent buffer underrun - buffer is only filled when WaitForSingleObjectEx() times out and this function always overshoots. But it it fixes your issue...