Switch back from Qt Multimedia to SDL for audio configuration detection. Qt is also broken, but just broken in a way that always reports stereo

app/app.pro

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-QT += core quick network quickcontrols2 svg multimedia
+QT += core quick network quickcontrols2 svg
 CONFIG += c++11
 
 unix:!macx {
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ SOURCES += \
     streaming/session.cpp \
     streaming/audio/audio.cpp \
     streaming/audio/renderers/sdlaud.cpp \
-    streaming/audio/renderers/qtaud.cpp \
     gui/computermodel.cpp \
     gui/appmodel.cpp \
     streaming/streamutils.cpp \
@@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ HEADERS += \
     streaming/session.hpp \
     streaming/audio/renderers/renderer.h \
     streaming/audio/renderers/sdl.h \
-    streaming/audio/renderers/qtaud.h \
     gui/computermodel.h \
     gui/appmodel.h \
     streaming/video/decoder.h \

app/streaming/audio/audio.cpp

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #include "../session.hpp"
 #include "renderers/renderer.h"
 #include "renderers/sdl.h"
-#include "renderers/qtaud.h"
 
 #include <Limelight.h>
 

app/streaming/audio/renderers/sdlaud.cpp

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #include <Limelight.h>
 #include <SDL.h>
 
-#include <QAudioDeviceInfo>
 #include <QtGlobal>
 
 #define MIN_QUEUED_FRAMES 2
@@ -11,20 +10,40 @@
 #define STOP_THE_WORLD_LIMIT 20
 #define DROP_RATIO_DENOM 32
 
-// Detecting this with SDL is quite problematic, so we'll use Qt's
+// This isn't accurate on macOS and Linux (PulseAudio),
-// multimedia framework to do so. It appears to be actually
+// since they both report supporting a large number of
-// accurate on Linux and macOS, unlike using SDL and relying
+// channels, regardless of the actual output device.
-// on a channel change in the format received.
 int SdlAudioRenderer::detectAudioConfiguration()
 {
-    int preferredChannelCount = QAudioDeviceInfo::defaultOutputDevice().preferredFormat().channelCount();
+    SDL_AudioSpec want, have;
+    SDL_AudioDeviceID dev;
+
+    SDL_zero(want);
+    want.freq = 48000;
+    want.format = AUDIO_S16;
+    want.channels = 6;
+    want.samples = 1024;
+
+    // Try to open for 5.1 surround sound, but allow SDL to tell us that's
+    // not available.
+    dev = SDL_OpenAudioDevice(NULL, 0, &want, &have, SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_CHANNELS_CHANGE);
+    if (dev == 0) {
+        SDL_LogError(SDL_LOG_CATEGORY_APPLICATION,
+                     "Failed to open audio device");
+        // We'll probably have issues during audio stream init, but we'll
+        // try anyway
+        return AUDIO_CONFIGURATION_STEREO;
+    }
+
+    SDL_CloseAudioDevice(dev);
 
     SDL_LogInfo(SDL_LOG_CATEGORY_APPLICATION,
-                "Audio output device prefers %d channel configuration",
+                "Audio device has %d channels", have.channels);
-                preferredChannelCount);
 
-    // We can better downmix 5.1 to quad than we can upmix stereo
+    if (have.channels > 2) {
-    if (preferredChannelCount > 2) {
+        // We don't support quadraphonic or 7.1 surround, but SDL
+        // should be able to downmix or upmix better from 5.1 than
+        // from stereo, so use 5.1 in non-stereo cases.
         return AUDIO_CONFIGURATION_51_SURROUND;
     }
     else {