Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Sound thoughts

[Alexander S. <ast...@it...>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 7:03 AM, Br'fin wrote:
> You're probably right that more of the sound code needs to be 
> encapsulated in general. Though I do believe I hit my initial goal 
> which was to separate the game sound handling from the platform 
> specific details. Adding both a play sound 2d(location) and an option 
> for attaching effects/filters to a sound would definitely be neat. 
> (play bullet sound next to ear, doppler shifted)

CoreAudio's 3D mixer handles doppler effects already, but it still 
holds for other things (making sounds echo in very large rooms).

> I really don't know what's up with Quicktime and the AIFF music file 
> that's not typed that way. It feels like there should be some way to 
> peek and say: "You don't understand it? Well, treat this data as an 
> AIFF." I don't generally see a problem with A1's music handling (Which 
> CMusic_Carbon was adapted from.) And playing only AIFF files seems 
> restrictive if/when we ever bring back in game music.
>
> -Jeremy Parsons

There is a call NewMovieFromDataFork(); this might ignore filetypes.