Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Pouech
Nick Burns wrote: Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:36:26 +0200 Nick Burns wrote: OpenAL 1.1 supports recording... (1.0 does not have recording so that is a problem yes) -- My driver handles this atm -- it checks for recording capabilities and supports accordingly half or full duplex ? Unknown

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Burns
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:36:26 +0200 Nick Burns wrote: OpenAL 1.1 supports recording... (1.0 does not have recording so that is a problem yes) -- My driver handles this atm -- it checks for recording capabilities and supports accordingly half or full duplex ? Unknown... (sorry not an ope

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-06 Thread Eric Pouech
Nick Burns wrote: OpenAL 1.1 supports recording... (1.0 does not have recording so that is a problem yes) -- My driver handles this atm -- it checks for recording capabilities and supports accordingly half or full duplex ? The OpenAL api is rather simple - For playback : you make buffers a

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-04 Thread Nick Burns
OpenAL 1.1 supports recording... (1.0 does not have recording so that is a problem yes) -- My driver handles this atm -- it checks for recording capabilities and supports accordingly The OpenAL api is rather simple - For playback : you make buffers and queue them then poll them (to find out wh

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-04 Thread Eric Pouech
The reason for using OpenAL is for platforms that dont have alsa/oss/esd/... support For one it gives a chance to test audio on windows for example -- and on mac osx (although the winecoreaudio driver is making great progress). planning to use OpenAL for portability reasons is a bad idea IMO:

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-03 Thread Nick Burns
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:08:04 -0700, Nick Burns wrote: Are there any problems with using OpenAL for such a purpose? Probably not, it depends on the exact level of abstraction OpenAL gives. But it begs the question - why? thanks -mike The reason for using OpenAL is for platforms that dont h

Re: Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-03 Thread Mike Hearn
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:08:04 -0700, Nick Burns wrote: > Are there any problems with using OpenAL for such a purpose? Probably not, it depends on the exact level of abstraction OpenAL gives. But it begs the question - why? thanks -mike

Prospects of an OpenAL audio driver...

2006-06-02 Thread Nick Burns
I have started work on an openal driver for wine... So far I have playback and recording working (with minor issues) (for some reason the DSound HEL is unhappy with my driver) OpenAL seems to have enough functionality to do the job. Are there any problems with using OpenAL for such a purpose? -