Hi, OpenAL (the original one by Creative) is unmaintained and almost no-one uses it anymore. The only interest in it is the support for hw accelerated spatialization (HRTFs), but almost no current drivers support that for OpenAL anyway. All Linux distros use OpenAL-soft these days and it has become a kind-of reference implementation. Multichannel sound (5.1+) works fine with it.
Jan On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <xe...@alphapixel.com> wrote: > > OpenAL is getting increasingly hard to get working on modern Windows systems. > > On behalf of another organization who was fed up with OpenAL, I rewrote > osgAL to support > FMOD, and released it as osgAudio: > > http://code.google.com/p/osgaudio/ > > It's slightly more up to date, and supports both openAL and FMOD > (compile-time > selectable). It doesn't make openAL any easier to get working though. I think > I ended up > installing openAL-soft or something to get it to work on Vista. FMOD is not > F/OSS, but it > has reasonable licensing, and I haven't found anything F/OSS that works > better than openAL. > > Also, openAL doesn't do anything other than 2.0 sound (like, 5.1 is > unavailable) on > Vista or later. There's a "Alchemy" kit from Creative that restores this > ability, but only > for Creative Labs hardware. > > >> Cheers, >> Trung > > > -- > Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com > PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ > "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
