Re: [Ohrrpgce] music backend testing
On 4/24/07, Keith Gable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/07, Bob the Hamster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some vigorous music backend testing to establish which one works on the largest number of user's computers. We could put together an RC1 release pretty easily (which I will probably do soon) But I was thinking it would be great to put together a very simple RPG, say with one hero, one map, and some NPCs that would test each different music format and each different sound format and then provide instructions for where the user should report their results. Is anyone up to the task of creating soundtest.rpg? Okay, uh. One thing though. What formats are officially supported and for what? SFX is WAV and Ogg, right? Music is WAV/Ogg/MP3/MIDI, correct? If I'm leaving one off, let me know. I can come up with music and can test each backend on Gentoo Linux (including music_native). Just need to know what formats. There are also the MOD formats: XM, IT, MOD and S3M. Did we support all of them? I forget. I can't quite remember whether WAV was supported for music in SDL. (I'm not sure it should be encouraged, even if it is.) Cheers, Simon ___ ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
Re: [Ohrrpgce] music backend testing
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Simon Bradley wrote: On 4/24/07, Keith Gable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/07, Bob the Hamster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some vigorous music backend testing to establish which one works on the largest number of user's computers. We could put together an RC1 release pretty easily (which I will probably do soon) But I was thinking it would be great to put together a very simple RPG, say with one hero, one map, and some NPCs that would test each different music format and each different sound format and then provide instructions for where the user should report their results. Is anyone up to the task of creating soundtest.rpg? Okay, uh. One thing though. What formats are officially supported and for what? SFX is WAV and Ogg, right? Music is WAV/Ogg/MP3/MIDI, correct? If I'm leaving one off, let me know. I can come up with music and can test each backend on Gentoo Linux (including music_native). Just need to know what formats. There are also the MOD formats: XM, IT, MOD and S3M. Did we support all of them? I forget. Yes, those should all be supported in both backends-- although this is a great time to verify that. So: OGG MP3 WAV MIDI BAM MOD XM IT MOD S3M I can't quite remember whether WAV was supported for music in SDL. (I'm not sure it should be encouraged, even if it is.) Yes, it is... although, I agree it would be a bad idea in practice. The advantage is that it is easy for people who are too lazy to install an OGG encoder :) --- Bob the Hamster ___ ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
Re: [Ohrrpgce] music backend testing
On 4/23/07, Bob the Hamster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some vigorous music backend testing to establish which one works on the largest number of user's computers. We could put together an RC1 release pretty easily (which I will probably do soon) But I was thinking it would be great to put together a very simple RPG, say with one hero, one map, and some NPCs that would test each different music format and each different sound format and then provide instructions for where the user should report their results. Is anyone up to the task of creating soundtest.rpg? Okay, uh. One thing though. What formats are officially supported and for what? SFX is WAV and Ogg, right? Music is WAV/Ogg/MP3/MIDI, correct? If I'm leaving one off, let me know. I can come up with music and can test each backend on Gentoo Linux (including music_native). Just need to know what formats. -- Keith Gable Lead Programmer / Project Leader The Ignition Project http://www.ignition-project.com/ [Ask me how you can get a free Gmail account - Now with Google Chat!] ___ ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
