[pythian] Re: PROJECT - Music
- From: Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:49:00 +0000
Unfortunately on Windows you need to use DirectSound to get access to
the sound hardware. The closest to OpenGL for audio is OpenAL - but that
is designed for 3D audio. Using DirectX on windows is alright, and as
long as we keep the code relatively clean the sound stuff can be
rewritten for the Linux version.
Robert Giddings wrote:
>Hi Kamil and Darryl,
>
>There must be an alternative to using DirectSound/Music, after all you don't
>need them to play sounds in Windows. Is there not a Sound equiverlent to
>OpenGL?
>
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>
>>hmm.. the midi music engine needs directmusic/dsound 8 but I am not sure if
>>BASS does. Anyway, this is just the REVERB effect. Just disable it and it
>>will work also with directx7. FMOD does not need DirectX at all (but it
>>will
>>use it if there is DSound installed and HW sound acceleration supported),
>>so
>>most likely I will switch also the music engine into FMOD as it is faster
>>according to CPU tests made by the authors of FMOD.
>>
>>
>
>Rob G.
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